Dependency injection is an advanced topic. The term was coined by Martin Fowler in 2004 to describe the new, novel and almost magical way that inversion of control containers initialized the ...

Spring and Google Guice are two powerful dependency injection frameworks in use today. Both frameworks fully embrace the concepts of dependency injection, but each has its own way of implementing them ...

So apart from recovering from a long bout of the stomach flu, enjoying good food again at a “Come dine with me” night (our parents would be so proud) and planning a rush trip to Vegas I’ve managed to ...

I’ve read lots of explanations of Dependency Injection or DI (formerly known as Inversion of Control) and the associated Hollywood Principle (“Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”). They all tend to be ...

Using a composition root will differ based on the type of application, as it should be as close to the application's entry point as possible. The idea is that the composition root will contain all of ...

Before you can begin refactoring, you need to know what to look for. I'm a very visual person, so whenever I work on refactoring a large or complex application, I begin by whiteboarding all components ...