Re: [CFCDev] Factory vs. Service Locator vs. IoC/DI

[Peter J. Farrell]

Matt Woodward wrote: On 12/15/05, Peter J. Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW Dave, CS is playing really nicely with Mach-II -- great job on the method injection technique in the plugin! It's so much better than parsing the XML file. Yep, we'll want to get Dave and Chris's wishlist for Mach-II 1.1.1 to make sure they stay very Mach-II friendly. ;-) I got some sense of what they'd like to see when we had time to talk a bit at the Frameworks conference, but definitely let us know if there are things we could add to Mach-II that would make the ColdSpring integration simpler or better. I agree. At the moment we have the getPlugins/Listeners/Filters(), etc methods in the To-Do for 1.1.1 to help the CS's Mach-II plugin.  Anything else boys? Dave, would it be safe to say it better to use dependency injection versus constructor-args (unless you need to process something in your init)? Thanks for asking this Peter--I've been meaning to ask the same thing. I'm using ColdSpring in my current "playground project" (MachBlog--yes, I know, another freakin' blog, but hey, it's Mach-II and ColdSpring baby!) and have messed with it both ways but I wasn't sure if one way was "preferred" or if there are specific situations in which you should use one or the other. The good news is they both work extremely well! I've said it a few times on my blog but I'll say it here again--thanks for ColdSpring guys! Matt Wow Matt -- we need to talk more often.  Last weekend (rather ironically), I started architecting MachBlog (no, really!).  This doesn't surprise me.  I wouldn't mind helping out -- I'd like Mach-II blog anyways... ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to cfcdev@cfczone.org with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/cfcdev@cfczone.org