JavaEE 5 Injection, a replacement for IoC frameworks?

Billy Newport comments on how the limited views of the designers have limited the usefulness of the JavaEE 5 injection mechanism. As Billy Newport said, “they never looked at using injection as a generic Java application wiring framework which was the whole reason this pattern became popular.” He then goes on to describe the assumptions under which design choices were made and their impact on the usefulness of the specification.