Spring's dependence on XML files always bugged the hell out of me. I like to be able to see what a piece of code does by looking at the code. Every time I tri

Spring's dependence on XML files always bugged the hell out of me. I like to be able to see what a piece of code does by looking at the code. Every time I tried to get excited about Spring I instead felt like at I was more and more at the mercy of my IDE.