Dependency Injection …and there is no magic

Dependency Injection is easier to implement, than to explain. In this 8 minute-screencast I explained what happens behind the scenes within an application server during initialization:

The screencast is actually the first 10 minutes of the airhacks.com workshop (Bootstrap). For unknown reasons, I referred to "side" with "size".I was too lazy to re-record it and recognized it after the fact...

Because DI is so easy, I built an injection "framework" for JavaFX: http://afterburner.adam-bien.com

See you at Java EE Workshops at MUC Airport!

See also other screencasts at: http://tv.adam-bien.com or subscribe to http://www.youtube.com/user/bienadam.

Comments:

Hi Adam,

what you've told is not completely the truth ;-)

#1 the container does not always look for injection points at runtime via reflection. Most often, it is done by using the annotation-processing-toolkit at deploy time. Then the container creates proxy-classes that are used as a kind of wrappers for the original instances.

#2 to show setAccessible(true) this way, is really dangerous, especially for Java-Novices. Instead, you should explain, that this must be done inside a PrivilegedAction and invoked by the SecurityManager.

(Not to mention, that setAccessible should not leave the accessible state to true, if it was false previously)...

See you at JAX ;-)

Posted by Robert on April 20, 2013 at 02:27 AM CEST #

it's esy..

Posted by 117.203.9.243 on April 22, 2013 at 03:23 PM CEST #

Hi Adam

How would you go about injecting a implementation of the boundary if you only specified the interface on the Presenter?

One way I can think is to use the @Named annotation in conjunction with the @Inject and give it a string value which has the fully qualified class name of the implementation.

Regards

Posted by Rentius on April 22, 2013 at 03:55 PM CEST #

nice article !

Posted by moshe on April 23, 2013 at 02:45 PM CEST #

@Robert,

clone + pull-request :-)

adam

Posted by Adam Bien on April 24, 2013 at 04:23 PM CEST #

@Rentius,

Do you know any use case for injecting an interface? Do you really have at least two implementations of the presenter?

If yes, you could replace my injector with Google Guice. I started with Guice (code still in GIT), but didn't found any use cases for interface injection and built my own...

thanks!,

adam

Posted by Adam Bien on April 24, 2013 at 04:26 PM CEST #

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