I think spring's giant XML config file was preferable to the annotation garbage that most people use these days. But both are shitty solutions in my book. I'm s

I think spring's giant XML config file was preferable to the annotation garbage that most people use these days. But both are shitty solutions in my book. I'm still not convinced that doing all this configuration and magic at runtime is a good idea. Most of what spring does in terms of dependency injection (and probably a bunch of configuration related things as well) should really be compile time steps. There are very few cases where you want to change the implementation of $foo at runtime, and being explicit about those few cases would be nice.