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Java 9 Dependency Injection

You're reading from   Java 9 Dependency Injection Write loosely coupled code with Spring 5 and Guice

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788296250
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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A brief introduction to the Google Guice framework

We learned the benefits of DI in software engineering, but choosing a framework wisely is also important when implementing DI because each framework has its own advantages and disadvantages. There are various Java-based dependency injection frameworks available in the open source community, such as Dagger, Google Guice, Spring DI, JAVA EE 8 DI, and PicoContainer.

Here, we will learn in detail about Google Guice (pronounced juice), a lightweight DI framework that helps developers to modularize applications. Guice encapsulates annotation and generics features introduced by Java 5 to make code type-safe. It enables objects to wire together and tests with fewer efforts. Annotations help you to write error-prone and reusable code.

In Guice, the new keyword is replaced with @inject for injecting dependency....

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