Autowiring two beans implementing same interface – how to set default bean to autowire?

Question

I’d suggest marking the Hibernate DAO class with @Primary, i.e. (assuming you used @Repository on HibernateDeviceDao):

@Primary
@Repository
public class HibernateDeviceDao implements DeviceDao

This way it will be selected as the default autowire candididate, with no need to autowire-candidate on the other bean.

Also, rather than using @Autowired @Qualifier, I find it more elegant to use @Resource for picking specific beans, i.e.

@Resource(name="jdbcDeviceDao")
DeviceDao deviceDao;