"Hey, Spring sucks because XML." "Right, you missed the last 9 years of Spring." #FacePalm

I prefer the XML over having a ton of Spring’y annotations in my code!

Did you look at Spring Java Config? Also you can just create Spring Beans by their class names docs.spring.io/spring/docs/c…

yup, I’d rather use the XML; I stick a tiny XML file next to each component and include all files with “**/component.xml”. Simples!

Yes, I think that makes sense, too.

I wonder whether people who have issues with Spring’s XML are perhaps abusing dependency injection ;-)