sweetchuck74 / gmail.com wrote: > Nowadays, DI (Dependency Inversion) is one of the widely used design > pattern. > It provides several benefits, such as (1) loose coupling between > component (2) effective and easy testing (component testing or unit > testing) > > What are the drawbacks or disadvantages of using DI? I think the best article on the topic is this by Martin Fowler: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html He does a good job of analyzing the pros and cons. And basically I agree with him; DI is useless unless you write 3rd party packages. Daniel