An IoC container should be exactly that -- a black box with internal workings that a software developer need not be concerned about. That is the fundamental meaning of inversion of control in Java.

The term was coined by Martin Fowler in 2004 to describe the new, novel and almost magical way that inversion of control containers initialized the properties of the objects they managed. IoC ...

UML (Unified Modeling Language) activity diagrams are commonly ... of the efficiencies gained by IoC containers. Eliminating the need for glue code, Spring makes adhering to object-oriented ...