IOC is a concept which is implemented by two ways. Dependency creation and dependency injection, Factory/Abstract factory are the example of dependency creation. Dependency injection is constructor, setter and interface. The core of IOC is to not depend upon the concrete classes, but define the abstract of methods(say an Interface/abstract class) and use that abstract to call method of concrete class. Like Factory pattern return the base class or interface. Similariliy dependency injection use base class/interface to set value for objects.

我建议保持概念的简单明了。依赖注入更像是一种松散耦合软件组件的体系结构模式。工厂模式只是将创建其他类的对象的职责分离给另一个实体的一种方法。工厂模式可以被称为实现依赖注入的工具。依赖注入可以通过多种方式实现，比如使用构造函数进行依赖注入，使用映射xml文件等。

有些问题用依赖注入很容易解决，而用一套工厂就不那么容易解决了。

一方面，控制反转和依赖注入(IOC/DI)与另一方面，服务定位器或工厂套件(factory)之间的一些区别是:

IOC/DI is a complete ecosystem of domain objects and services in and of itself. It sets everything up for you in the way you specify. Your domain objects and services are constructed by the container, and do not construct themselves: they therefore do not have any dependencies on the container or on any factories. IOC/DI permits an extremely high degree of configurability, with all the configuration in a single place (construction of the container) at the topmost layer of your application (the GUI, the Web front-end).

工厂抽象了域对象和服务的一些构造。但是领域对象和服务仍然负责弄清楚如何构造自己，以及如何获得它们所依赖的所有东西。所有这些“活动的”依赖项都会在应用程序的所有层中进行筛选。没有一个地方可以配置所有的东西。

Life cycle management is one of the responsibilities dependency containers assume in addition to instantiation and injection. The fact that the container sometimes keep a reference to the components after instantiation is the reason it is called a "container", and not a factory. Dependency injection containers usually only keep a reference to objects it needs to manage life cycles for, or that are reused for future injections, like singletons or flyweights. When configured to create new instances of some components for each call to the container, the container usually just forgets about the created object.

来自:http://tutorials.jenkov.com/dependency-injection/dependency-injection-containers.html

在我看来，使用依赖注入更好，如果你是: 1. 将代码部署在小分区中，因为它可以很好地解耦一个大代码。 2. 可测试性是DI可以使用的情况之一，因为你可以很容易地模拟非去耦的对象。通过使用接口，您可以轻松地模拟和测试每个对象。 3.你可以同时修改程序的每一部分，而不需要编码它的另一部分，因为它是松散解耦的。

我相信DI是一种配置或即时化bean的方法。DI可以通过很多方式来实现，比如构造函数，setter-getter等等。

工厂模式只是实例化bean的另一种方式。此模式将主要用于必须使用工厂设计模式创建对象时，因为在使用此模式时，您不配置bean的属性，只实例化对象。

检查这个链接:依赖注入