Field injection is not evil

I am a big fan of the work Oliver Gierke has done in Spring Data. It is a framework I use daily at work and it really is amazing. A while back Greg Turnquist had posted something on Twitter against field injection. So I asked what was wrong with field injection and he pointed me to this post that Oliver had written about it.

This post is going to be my attempt to argue against Oliver’s position on the subject. It may wind up an epic failure, but if nothing else I figured it would help me think through my thoughts and assumptions on the issue and see if I can make an argument in favor of it. First head over to Oliver’s post on the topic and read it before you continue on.