It should be possible for IDEA to automatically create wirings, for properties for which there is only one correctly-typed bean in scope (a very common occurence). This could either be on a per-property basis (picture an intention that says "Bind datasource property to oracleDataSource bean"), or in batch (an intention that just says "Wire up available properties"). How it should work is: You create a bean, setting it's class (or factory, etc.). An intention is then available on the bean which says "Autowire properties". Any setters which can be unambiguously bound in the current context have their properties automatically added to the bean configuration. Constructor args are more difficult, since all of the args for a constructor have to be unambiguously bindable, but it's still doable. It's totally sweet to see a half-dozen property bindings added at a stroke, and the requirements for unambiguousness are very common. Basically, you get all of the ease-of-use of runtime auto-wiring with none of the scariness. I had this in my personal Spring plugin, and it ruled.