I consider @Autowired and bean config in code as harmful. It also seems like one of the main things Spring was all about n the beginning - decoupling your application from the configuration framework - is now come full circle to tight coupling with Spring. Not only that, but code which references config files for one spaghetti mess of code and config that is a pain to test. More and more I run into library packages with direct dependencies on Spring config - and it makes integration painful.

I'd be happy to see Spring config in a format other than XML (JSON, YAML, whatever), but even more than that, a complete elimination of any Spring config directly in Java files.