Dependency injection is an advanced topic. The term was coined by Martin Fowler in 2004 to describe the new, novel and almost magical way that inversion of control containers initialized the ...

I'm now doing a column for MSDN magazine about how design patterns help developers solve typical business problems. The column is called "Patterns in Practice", but it could just as easily have been ...

I’ve read lots of explanations of Dependency Injection or DI (formerly known as Inversion of Control) and the associated Hollywood Principle (“Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”). They all tend to be ...

Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Spring ApplicationContext provides developers direct access to the Spring framework’s ...