This article discusses the strength and weakness of applying Dependency Injection (DI) with a variant of Abstract Factory design pattern. This approach is especially suitable for such scenarios as ...

Java 7 unifies some of the basic standards that the various Dependency Injection frameworks (Spring, Guice, PicoContainer etc) have, making it easier for developers to move between the frameworks ...

The earlier service locator pattern that utilized JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface) lookups is now replaced with the Dependency Injection pattern.

Dependency injection in Spring is an advanced topic that is often misrepresented. This Spring and DI tutorial explains exactly what the DI pattern entails.