inversion-of-control

ASP.NET MVC IoC usability

Hello everybody, How often do you use IoC for controllers/DAL in real projects? IoC allows to abstract application from concrete implementation with additional layer of interfaces that should be implemented. But how often concrete implementation changes? Should we really have to do job twice adding method to interface then the impleme...

Simple Inversion of Control framework for Java/Scala

I am looking for a simple to use IoC container for GUI applications written in Java/Scala. It should support Convention over Configuration, lifecycle management, configuration in code (preferably without any XML needed at all), and checking dependencies at compile-time as much as possible. Something similar to Autofac would be perfect....

Connecting gwt-dispatch with guice and mvp4g

I have some questions regarding gwt-dispatch and guice. I'm using Guice 2.0, gwt-dispatch 1.1.0 snapshot, mvp4g 1.1.0 and GIN 1.0 First of all, I have defined simple action, result and handler: ListContactsAction.java public class ListContactsAction implements Action<ListContactsResult>{ public ListContactsAction() { } } L...

Best loose way to get objects with common base class

I struggled to come up with a good title for this question, so suggestions are welcome. Let's say we have an abstract base class ActionBase that looks something like this: public abstract class ActionBase { public abstract string Name { get; } public abstract string Description { get; } // rest of declaration follows } A...

StructureMap IoC problem getting the instance in runtime

i have 2 concrete types "CategoryFilter" & "StopWordsFilter" that implements "IWordTokensFilter". Below is my setup: ForRequestedType<IWordTokensFilter>().TheDefaultIsConcreteType<CategoryFilter>() .AddInstances(x => { x.OfConcreteType<StopWordsFilter>(); } ); The problem is...

What does "bean X is injected into bean Y" mean in context of Spring framework

Hello. Seems,that very basic question. Anyway can't get the meaning of next definition from Spring tutorials - "bean X is injected into bean Y" . Does it mean composition relation between classes(when one bean has reference to another)? Or it's something more? Thank you for answer or reference with explanation. ...

Adding IoC Support to my WCF service hosted in a windows service (Autofac)

I'd like to setup my WCF services to use an IoC Container. There's an article in the Autofac wiki about WCF integration, but it's showing just an integration with a service hosted in IIS. But my services are hosted in a windows service. Here I got an advice to hook up the opening event http://groups.google.com/group/autofac/browse_thr...

Call a Firebug command from client code.

I would like to apply some sort of IoC, with debugee code, i.e. the current HTML document, and the debugger, Firebug. It would be great to have some sort of document that asks Firebug to open a push channel from the document, versus the more common scenario of the debugger pulling information from the debugee document. Is this possible...

How do I bind Different Interfaces using Google Guice?

Do I need to create a new module with the Interface bound to a different implementation? Chef newChef = Guice.createInjector(Stage.DEVELOPMENT, new Module() { @Override public void configure(Binder binder) { binder.bind(FortuneService.class).to(FortuneServiceImpl.class); } }).getInstance(Chef.class); Chef ...

How do I correctly use Unity to pass a ConnectionString to my repository classes?

I've literally just started using the Unity Application Blocks Dependency Injection library from Microsoft, and I've come unstuck. This is my IoC class that'll handle the instantiation of my concrete classes to their interface types (so I don't have to keep called Resolve on the IoC container each time I want a repository in my controll...

How do I use constructor dependency injection to supply Models from a collection to their ViewModels?

I'm using constructor dependency injection in my WPF application and I keep running into the following pattern, so would like to get other people's opinion on it and hear about alternative solutions. The goal is to wire up a hierarchy of ViewModels to a similar hierarchy of Models, so that the responsibility for presenting the informati...

Is it possible to use Dependency Injection/IoC on an ASP.NET MVC FilterAttribute ?

Hi folks, I've got a simple custom FilterAttribute which I use decorate various ActionMethods. eg. [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)] [MyCustomFilter] public ActionResult Bar(...) { ... } Now, I wish to add some logging to this CustomFilter Action .. so being a good boy, I'm using DI/IoC ... and as such wish to use this pattern for my cus...

IoC with ASMX Like you can in WCF?

Can ASMX have an IOC like WCF? Basically I want to be able to inject my dependacies into the ASMX web service. is this possible and if so how. WCF way (somthing like this would be awesome) http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/jimmy_bogard/archive/2008/07/29/integrating-structuremap-with-wcf.aspx many thanks ...

Passing ASP.NET User by Dependency Injection

In my web application I have various components that need to access the currently authenticated user (HttpContext.User). There are two obvious ways a component can access this: 1) Accessing getting the User from HttpContext.Current 2) Passing the user around in constructors Is not ideal because it makes testing difficult and ties ap...

Doesn't Spring really support Interface injection at all?

Hi I know that Spring doesn't supports Interface injection and I've read that many a times. But today as I came across an article about IOC by Martin Fowler (link), it seems using ApplicationContextAware in Spring is some what similar to the Interface injection. when ever Spring' context reference is required in our Spring bean, we'll...

Castle windsor registration

interface IUserService class LocalUserService : IUserService class RemoteUserService : IUserService interface IUserRepository class UserRepository : IUserRepository If I have the following interfaces and classes, where the IUserService classes have a dependency on IUserRepository. I can register these components by doing something lik...

What is the business case for a dependency injection (DI) framework?

At my company we want to start using a dependency injection (DI) framework for managing our dependencies. I have some difficulty with explaining the business value of such a framework. Currently I have come up with these reasons. Less source code, delete all the builder patterns in the code. Increase in flexibility. Easier to switch de...

Trouble with object injection in Spring.Net

Hi all, I have a issue with my Spring.Net configuration where its not injecting an object. I have a CommService to which an object named GeneralEmail is injected to. Here is the configuration: <!-- GeneralMail Object --> <object id="GeneralMailObject" type="CommUtil.Email.GeneralEmail, CommUtil"> <constructor-arg name="host" value="...

Passing an instantiated class to concrete class derived by Castle Windsor

I have a system that I'm using to test some new architecture. I have the following setup (In MVC2 .Net - C Sharp): View < Controller < Service < Repository < DB I'm using Castle Windsor as my DI (IoC) controller, and this is working just fine in both the Service and Repo layers. However, I'm now at a point where I would like to pass an...

Question about mixing MEF and Unity

I'm finally diving into Unity head first, and have run into my first real problem. I've been gradually changing some things in my app from being MEF-resolved to Unity-resolved. Everything went fine on the application side, but then I realized that my plugins were not being loaded. I started to look into this issue, and I believe it's ...