In my last article, I detailed a high-level comparison of two dependency injection frameworks: Guice and Spring. As I mentioned then, although they both fully embrace the principles of DI, they have ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Spring ApplicationContext provides developers direct access to the Spring framework’s ...

I'm now doing a column for MSDN magazine about how design patterns help developers solve typical business problems. The column is called "Patterns in Practice", but it could just as easily have been ...

Take advantage of the inversion of control pattern to loosely couple the components of your application and make them easier to test and maintain. Both inversion of control and dependency injection ...

I needed to add a new task to an Ant-driven build and I implemented that task using Spring, a lightweight IoC (Inversion of Control) framework. I encountered virtually no issues since, because an IoC ...

This worked OK in the beginning. As my application grew, I wanted to take advantage of IoC in my ViewModel; there were repositories to inject as well as other dependencies. Because of these and other ...