> Possible that I was using Spring in a wrong fashion but for me (project size around 300 KLOC) Spring dependency injection model with so much magic happening (all the auto configurations, guessing which classes to load etc.) was extremely hard to maintain and understand. I think I prefer Guice/Dagger style of defining dependencies which is much more explicit.
Spring used to be (and still can be) very explicit about defining dependencies, but they've been pushing more towards encouraging the use of "magic" over the last many years. I prefer to be as explicit as possible about everything, unless I have a very good reason not to be, and tend to either specify the literal bean name in the annotations or use the older XML-style configuration (and do the same).
Spring used to be (and still can be) very explicit about defining dependencies, but they've been pushing more towards encouraging the use of "magic" over the last many years. I prefer to be as explicit as possible about everything, unless I have a very good reason not to be, and tend to either specify the literal bean name in the annotations or use the older XML-style configuration (and do the same).