Hi Kevin,
I am not so concerned about @Inject annotations or runtime costs so
much as "API pollution". For example, I worry users would be off-put by
having to do:
Injector.getClass(Toolkit.class);
instead of
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit()
Are you suggesting that I should expose the latter method that invokes
the former internally? From a usability point of view, factory methods
look a lot nicer coming off the class than having to go through an extra
level of indirection (Injector)...
Gili
Kevin Bourrillion wrote:
> The goal of Guice is for your code to not truly depend on it. However,
> the fact that @Inject and interfaces like Provider are not in the JDK --
> yet! <http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=330> -- means you do end up having
> to depend on Guice in these small ways. Still, you can keep your Module
> definitions in a separate artifact, and you can offer Spring
> configurations as well or even static factories that wire up your nice
> DI-friendly classes by hand if that's something you want to do. The
> guice JAR file that would be required at runtime could be very small.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Gili <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to publish an open-source Java library and I was thinking
> that it would benefit from using Guice in a couple of places to
> improve testability. My next thought is that users would avoid my
> library if I force Guice on them. I don't want to cross the line
> between providing a library to providing a framework.
>
> Has anyone else run across this before? Is this the reason we rarely
> see Guice or Spring being used by other open-source libraries?
>
> I use Guice everywhere in my internal application code, but I'd be
> reluctant to use a library if it exposed IoC through its API.
>
> Gili
>
>
>
> >
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