Developers typically use field injection only on small projects and prototypes, due to its inability to support immutable variables and the incompatibilities it creates with many testing frameworks.

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Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in ...