I think there is a misunderstanding on what I have meant by DI in this case.

OSGi addresses runtime wiring of components. What I mean by DI here is its
application as a design pattern[1]. This is not about unit testing the DAO
itself. Its about unit testing other components that use the DAO.

You dont need any frameworks for doing DI actually because its a design
pattern. We are currently doing it by hand. A framework would just make it
slightly easier to manage but its not essential. If we are serious about
testing we need to take DI into consideration when designing our classes.

[1] http://martinfowler.com/articles/dipInTheWild.html

On 1 November 2016 at 18:42, Ruwan Abeykoon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
> If this is about unit testing on DAO, we are also experimenting with
> simple JDBC approach[1]. No Dependency Injection.
> We could test the DAO, the SQL correctness etc. because there is no Mock
> objects.
>
> I am not in favor of DI on developing a platform as we have no control
> over which get wired at the runtime. OSGI is already a kind of "dependency
> injection" and we have more than enough issues with that.
>
> [1] https://github.com/wso2/carbon-identity-providers/
> blob/master/components/identity-provider/org.wso2.
> carbon.identity.provider/src/test/java/org/wso2/carbon/
> identity/provider/dao/IdentityProviderDAOTest.java
>
> Cheers,
> Ruwan
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Manuranga Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I like Guice as well, but since we already have OSGi, (if we do have
>> OSGi) shouldn't we leverage that ?
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Uvindra Dias Jayasinha <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Spring too supports dependency injection (since its first release in
>>>> early 2000s), anyone knows the differences between Spring and Guice?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I checked up on this, mainly Spring was the alternative to the bloated
>>> JavaEE. So its a fully featured framework with lots of stuff including the
>>> ability to do dependency injection.
>>>
>>> Guice is a light weight library that only focuses on DI. So if you want
>>> just DI, Guice is nice and simple as opposed to a heavier framework like
>>> Spring that has a lot more in it.
>>>
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