Re: IOC container

From: Michael Gentry (mgentr..asslight.net)
Date: Mon Nov 16 2009 - 09:28:55 EST

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    How are you envisioning injecting an ObjectContext for different DataNodes, etc?

    Thanks,

    mrg

    On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
    > Just for kicks wrote a simple DI container for Cayenne. I checked it in
    > partially to sanbdox folder until the ASF SVN repo went down
    > (http://monitoring.apache.org/), so I'll commit the rest on Monday, or
    > whenever SVN becomes available.
    >
    > This no-frills DI container took me only a couple of hours to write (it
    > borrows some Guice API, but implementation is all mine). It supports
    >
    > * annotation-based field dependency injection
    > * binding interfaces to implementation classes via fluent API
    > * binding interfaces to "provider" (same as "factory") classes
    > * merging multiple DI "modules".
    >
    > The whole thing is only 14K after compilation (so it beats all full featured
    > DI containers in size). Of course that's because it doesn't have all the
    > fancy stuff (of which we'll add at least a few more things) such as
    > constructor injection, dependency cycle resolving, dynamic interface
    > proxies, bound object lifecycle, integration with Spring, etc. Since we are
    > not planning a general purpose container, we might survive without most of
    > those.
    >
    > Here is how the current Configuration class might look like when it is based
    > on DI:
    >
    > public class Configuration {
    >
    >        private Injector injector;
    >
    >        public Configuration() {
    >                this(new CayenneModule());
    >        }
    >
    >        public Configuration(Module... modules) {
    >                this.injector = DIBootstrap.createInjector(modules);
    >        }
    >
    >        public DataChannel getDataChannel() {
    >                return injector.getInstance(DataChannel.class);
    >        }
    >
    >        public ObjectContext getNewContext() {
    >                return injector.getInstance(ObjectContext.class);
    >        }
    >
    >        // we may create getters for other "services" if we need to
    > }
    >
    > And the actual configuration class (aka "module") used above:
    >
    > public class CayenneModule implements Module {
    >
    >        public void configure(Binder binder) {
    >                binder.bind(EventManager.class).to(EventManagerImpl.class);
    >                binder.bind(DataChannel.class).to(DataDomain.class);
    >
    >  binder.bind(QueryCache.class).toProvider(LRUCacheFactory.class);
    >                binder.bind(QueryLogger.class).toProvider(FancyLogger.class);
    >                // an so on...
    >        }
    > }
    >
    > "CayenneModule" is what users can override (e.g. simply subclass), providing
    > alternative implementations for some services.
    >
    > The next step in this prototype would be an attempt to define the current
    > Cayenne stack in terms of DI.
    >
    > Andrus
    >
    > On Oct 27, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Kevin Menard wrote:
    >
    >> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org>
    >> wrote:
    >>
    >>> And I just discovered that both Spring (3.0RC1) and Juice (trunk) support
    >>> the annotations from this JSR. So it could make sense for us to use these
    >>> annotations internally as well. Couldn't dig any info on the Tapestry IoC
    >>> support for this JSR, but they are on the JSR "support group", so at
    >>> least
    >>> they are watching it.
    >>
    >> Thiago, the Tapestry member on the support group, just learned that it
    >> had been approved.  Howard didn't even know the JSR existed.  There's
    >> no discussion on adding in the annotation support to Tapestry IoC and
    >> I suspect it will happen, but Tapestry is behind the ball on that one.
    >>
    >> --
    >> Kevin
    >>
    >
    >



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