The short answer is yes. http://jonasboner.com/2008/10/06/real-world-scala-dependency-in
While scala can implement DI without 3rd party dependency. If you compare
the code you can easily see how much easier to do it with DI framework with
Spring.
That's what I have been saying, built-in expressiveness can only take you so
far, it can never beat a full-fledged framework. http://blog.typesafe.com/spring-integration-scala-dsl-announced
Spring is starting a project to do better integration with scala and
typesafe welcomes that.
And DI is only a smart part of Spring.