Ways of Dependency Injection

Question

Can the Factory Patterns (Factory Method,Simple Factory Method and Abstract Factory) or Service Locator Pattern way of fetching the dependency be called Dependency Injection

Answer 1

Dependency Injection and Service Locator are two opposing ways to program to interfaces, but Dependency Injection solves most problems and challenges far better than the Service Locator anti-pattern.

Abstract Factories can be injected into services that need them, so can be combined with both approaches. They are perpendicular to the discussion, not a variation of Service Locator.