I’ve been meaning to blog about my hate of xml configuration files, but Technotourette beat me to it.

I just dont understand the fascination for it. XML has its place definitely, but I dont want to have to learn a painful new XML configuration language every time I want to do something.

The good thing is that the new IOC approach brought to by PicoContainer allows us to pick our own configuration method. When writing test code I can simply instantiate classes without even touching Pico. It also allows you to use Groovy, xml, web.xml or whatever to configure if you really need to seperate stuff out.