Sometimes in a Spring framework code, we see the keywords @Inject and @Autowired being used interchangeably. Simply putting it @Autowired is Spring specific annotation for implementing Dependency Injection, whereas @Inject is part of Java EE 6 specification, hence more generic.

JSR 299, Java EE 6 specification, provided a feature called Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI). http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/giwhb.html.

JSR 330, more specifically talks about Dependency Injection. https://dzone.com/articles/what-relation-betwe-there

A more elaborated explanation on usage of various DI annotations – http://blogs.sourceallies.com/2011/08/spring-injection-with-resource-and-autowired/#more-2350