What are the benefits of dependency injection containers?

Question

I understand benefits of dependency injection itself. Let\'s take Spring for instance. I also understand benefits of other Spring featureslike AOP, helpers of different kind

Answer 1

One of the most appealing reasons is the "Hollywood principle": don't call us, we'll call you. A component is not required to do the lookups to other components and services itself; instead they are provided to it automatically. In Java, this means that it is no longer necessary to do JNDI lookups inside the component.

It is also lots easier to unit test a component in isolation: instead of giving it an actual implementation of the components it needs, you simply use (possibly auto generated) mocks.