CHAPTER 2
Context and Dependency Injection
The very first version of Java EE (J2EE at the time) introduced the concept of inversion of control (IoC), meaning that the container would take control of your business code and provide technical services (such as transaction or security management). Taking control meant managing the life cycle of the components, bringing dependency injection and configuration to your components. These services were built in to the container and programmers had to wait until later versions of Java EE to have access to them. Component configuration was made possible in early versions with XML deployment descriptors, ...
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