Question

I have just started using and educating my self of Java spring. I now know that we can inject beans.

But on the look of it it looks like a glorified properties file, am i right in thinking that way ?

Answer 1

No, absolutely not. This couldn’t be more wrong.

Spring is about three things:

1. dependency injection (think “factory pattern”)
2. aspect oriented programming
3. a framework that handles persistence, remoting, transactions, messaging, etc. better than any plumbing you’ll ever write.

If you only see “glorified properties”, you’ve got a very long way to go in your Spring education. Keep reading.