> Are there any benifits of using a lightweight DI Engine over Spring? Well yeah, several. You don't have to depend on a huge API (spring-core and everything

> Are there any benifits of using a lightweight DI Engine over Spring? Well yeah, several. You don't have to depend on a huge API (spring-core and everything else needed for spring-di) just to get one piece of functionality. You can avoid using XML as application logic. You can avoid singletons-as-default-behavior and mutable beans all over the place. It will likely be faster.