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Learning Google Guice

By : Hussain Pithawala
Book Image

Learning Google Guice

By: Hussain Pithawala

Overview of this book

<p>Google Guice is an open source software framework for the Java platform released by Google under the Apache License. It provides support for dependency injection using annotations to configure Java objects.</p> <p>Learning Google Guice is a concise, hands-on book that covers the various areas of dependency injection using the features provided by the latest version of Google Guice. It focuses on core functionalities as well as the various extensions surrounding Guice that make it useful in other areas like web development, integration with frameworks for web development, and persistence.</p> <p>Learning Google Guice covers Guice extensions which avoid complex API usage. You will start by developing a trivial application and managing dependencies using Guice. As the book gradually progresses, you will continue adding complexity to the application while simultaneously learning how to use Guice features such as the Injector, Provider, Bindings, Scopes, and so on. Finally, you will retrofit the application for the Web, using Guice not only to manage dependencies, but also to solve configuration related problems.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Google Guice
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


We briefly discussed the need of dependency injection, and how direct dependency initialization could create problems. Later, we brought Guice to rescue us from this problem. We saw how to configure simple bindings, inject constants, and wire dependencies.

We also saw the two sample applications, one with vanilla dependency initialization and other with Google Guice. We build and ran the sample code using maven. By now, we should be ready to start exploring Google Guice to solve more challenges, which we will face in developing the application further.

In the next chapter we will discuss various ways of dependency injection using Guice, different types of bindings, and other commonly used features.