This is not at all the definition of Dependency Injection. The wikipedia article [1] does a pretty good job of describing what it really is. DI is a pattern th

This is not at all the definition of Dependency Injection. The wikipedia article [1] does a pretty good job of describing what it really is. DI is a pattern that is intended to reduce coupling between components in a large system. It applies to any OOP language, although it is true to say that the term first gained popularity in the "enterprise" Java world. I also think it's wrong to conflate DI with XML. One of the first major DI frameworks, Spring, did use XML for configuring and wiring-up components, but it's also quite popular to do this part purely in the code, without any external configuration files. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection