Spring offers some if the features to JAVA, that these newer languages have. Spring annotations lessens the XML configuration, none at times, it's AOP jar allow

Spring offers some if the features to JAVA, that these newer languages have. Spring annotations lessens the XML configuration, none at times, it's AOP jar allows passing methods to methods as in some of the functional types, etc. Problem is people haven't updated their codebase and continue maintaining the old XMLs.