Understanding the need for a DI framework

Question

This might be a naive question. I\'m currently learning the Spring framework and dependency injection. While the basic principle of DI is rather easy to grasp, it\'s

Answer 1

Spring helps you understand and even encourages DI models. However, I don't believe you have to have Spring.

You can have configuration files in Java which you can debug, refactor and perform code analysis on.

I suggest you put these java configuration files in another package, but they are otherwise equivalent to XML configuration files. You can even load these file dynamically if that's important.