I work with Spring daily, and I haven't written a line of Spring XML in, literally, years. Granted I don't use all of the modules it offers, some of which may

I work with Spring daily, and I haven't written a line of Spring XML in, literally, years. Granted I don't use all of the modules it offers, some of which may still use XML, but the best part about Spring is that you can pick and choose what'd you like, and replace/extend where you need to.