If you are doing much beyond simple bean injection - Camel, Quartz, OSGi, etc. - then you will be up to your armpits in XML. But it's not so bad, if you prefer

If you are doing much beyond simple bean injection - Camel, Quartz, OSGi, etc. - then you will be up to your armpits in XML. But it's not so bad, if you prefer configuration to convention.