[CTJUG Forum] Re: IoC & MVC Frameworks

[Ben van der Merwe]

Hi Renier, Inversion of Control is a design principle or characteristic that frameworks try to achieve (term first coined by Martin Fowler). Dependency Injection is a specific design pattern that realizes the characteristic as its intent. So it only makes sense to refer to Dependency Injection frameworks, because we are referring to a specific pattern implementation, not the general principle or characteristic. In the .Net world Microsoft has a ObjectBuilder component in their Enterprise Library and they consistently refer to it as an implementation of the Dependency Injection pattern, so there is industry-wide trend towards this more specific term, where applicable. Here is Fowler's article that discusses this issue: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html Cheers, Ben Renier Rhode wrote: Who actually gets Inversion of Control? The term makes no sense to me... It's other name ( Dependency Injection ) makes much more sense... ( to me in any case ) Cheers, Renier Paul wrote: Hello I'm interested to know which MVC & IoC frameworks you guys use... I'd like to know how many of you use which frameworks. We currently us Spring (IoC & MVC) 1.2.6 (soon to migrate to 2.x) Regards Paul -- Ben van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to CTJUG-Forum@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---