The term was coined in 2004: https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html It’s not correct that Ja

The term was coined in 2004: https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html It’s not correct that Java was designed for it, unless you want to call class loading dependency injection. It’s merely that Java’s reflection mechanism happened to enable DI frameworks. The earlier Java concept was service locaters (also discussed in the article linked above).