Dependency Injection Options for Java

I wanted to take some time to put together a summary of some popular dependency injection (DI) frameworks for Java.…

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Dependency injection with Scala macros: auto-wiring

You can look at dependency injection as a fancy name for passing parameters to a function (or constructor arguments to…

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How I explained Dependency Injection to My Team

Recently our company started developing a new java based web application and after some evaluation process we decided to use…

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Spring vs Guice: The one critical difference that matters

Spring objects are recognized based on their names It doesn’t matter whether you use XML or Java config, a Spring…

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Spring 3: Type safe dependency injection

Before jumping to Type Safe Dependency Injection from Spring, I would like to to discuss the way we have been…

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DI in Scala: Cake Pattern pros & cons

I’ve been looking at alternatives for java-style DI and DI containers which would use pure Scala; a promising candidate is…

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Rich Domain Model with Guice

The anaemic domain model is a really common anti-pattern. In the world of ORM & DI frameworks we naturally seem…

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On DTOs

DTOs, or data-transfer objects, are commonly used. What is not s? commonly-known is that they originate from DDD (Domain-driven design).…

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On domain-driven design, anemic domain models, code generation, dependency injection and more…

Eric Evans has formulated what domain-driven design (DDD) is. Martin Fowler is a great supporter and advocate of DDD. These…

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