Comments on Lex Spoon: Why not inject dependencies "manually"?

There's a good video from Google IO where they...

2009-06-12T23:50:43.257-07:00

There's a good video from Google IO where they go over Guice.

http://code.google.com/events/io/sessions/BigModularJavaGuice.html

They also show that the factory code is what you shouldn't have in your code.

And thanks for all the good work on Scala. Maybe we can get a GWT Scala compiler???? :)

Robert, I agree, but the "Traditional Java Way" th...

2009-02-09T07:57:00.000-08:00

Robert, I agree, but the "Traditional Java Way" that is shown is a straw man. Just above that example there is discussion on how to do better. If you compare against crummy code, then anything looks like an improvement.

Rafael, methods and object encapsulation also solve recursive dependencies. They are powerful tools of abstraction, but you have to think to use them.

One advantage of dependency injection frameworks i...

2009-02-06T17:17:00.000-08:00

One advantage of dependency injection frameworks is that they resolve recursive dependencies, so you won't have to.

While I haven't looked at the Guice docs in a whil...

2009-02-06T11:58:00.000-08:00

While I haven't looked at the Guice docs in a while, I suspect you missed the point of the factory examples... They aren't demonstrating the "Guice" way, they are showing the "Traditional Java Way" people would have done service providers.

The point of Guice or any dependency injector is to keep you from having to write 200 factories in your application. Not to make them easier to work with :)