Matching program arguments to appropriate object

public class Publisher {

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("target1")
    Connection target1;

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("target2")
    Connection target2;

    private final List<Connection> connections;

      public Publisher(List<Connection> connections) {
        this.connections = connections;
    }

        public void publish(String target) {
        if (target.equalsIgnoreCase("all")) {
            for (Connection connection : connections) {
                doSomething(connection);
            }

        } else if (target.equalsIgnoreCase("Person1")) {
            doSomething(target1);

        } else if (target.equalsIgnoreCase("Person2")) {
            doSomething(target2);
        } 

}

Let's say I have the above Publisher class. It initialises the list of connection targets by creating spring beans as follows:

  <bean id="publisher" class="com.Publisher">
        <constructor-arg>
            <list>
                <ref bean="target1"/>
                <ref bean="target2"/>
            </list>
        </constructor-arg>
    </bean>

In most cases, when main() method is called, it will use all as program argument as I expect to send files to both targets. So main() would call something like this:

pub.publish(target) //target = "ALL"

In that case, I am working with 2 connection objects.

However, in certain scenario, I want to republish files to a specified target only, so my main() method will call publish with specified target:

 pub.publish(target) //target = "Person1"

In this case, I still end up with multiple connection objects even though only target 1 is necessary for re-publishing.

is there a better approach to writing this for re-publishing? How should I match Program argument (target) to the appropriate connection object? I may also end up having more targets in future and this piece of code is hard coding the targets. is there a better alternative?