I guess it depends upon what you mean. For many projects, DI frameworks are a giant cargo cult. Whether you use annotations or XML. More broadly, Java's obse

I guess it depends upon what you mean. For many projects, DI frameworks are a giant cargo cult. Whether you use annotations or XML. More broadly, Java's obsession with "flexibility" (really, false flexibility) is a giant cargo cult. If you're talking about webapps specifically... using XML in Java was not a cargo cult. It was the only option in 2007. Even if you didn't use Spring.