Java spring what is the point of XML programming?

I'm going through the Spring right now and have some things on my mind. What is the point of doing so many things in the XML files? I've been through searching for the answer for this but found nothing interesting. I mean all those denpendency injections and declaring objects present way much better when written in Java, don't they? XML is not intuitive and there's aparently more code to write and I'm in the very beginning of my Spring path but I don't feel like this can be useful in the future... Can somebody explain to me what is so good about bringing programming to the XML? Or maybe pass me the link of some article which may help me? Thanks!