Preface

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

—George Bernard Shaw

So, novice-expert-aficionado-learner, welcome to our dependency injection theme park! We'll begin this tour of dependency injection at the gate: by first defining the problem it solves.

The tour will then proceed down the streams of specific implementations and popular technologies, examining quick solutions in such frameworks as Guice, Spring, and PicoContainer, among others. A long break will follow for the purpose of theoretical nourishment, where we shall discuss the foundational idioms behind dependency injection, its core viral ideology, ...

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