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Scala Design Patterns

By : Ivan Nikolov
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Scala Design Patterns

By: Ivan Nikolov

Overview of this book

Scala has become increasingly popular in many different IT sectors. The language is exceptionally feature-rich which helps developers write less code and get faster results. Design patterns make developer’s lives easier by helping them write great software that is easy to maintain, runs efficiently and is valuable to the company or people concerned. You will learn about the various features of Scala and be able to apply well-known, industry-proven design patterns in your work. The book starts off by focusing on some of the most interesting features of Scala while using practical real-world examples. We will also cover the popular "Gang of Four" design patterns and show you how to incorporate functional patterns effectively. By the end of this book, you will have enough knowledge and understanding to quickly assess problems and come up with elegant solutions.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Scala Design Patterns
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The cake design pattern


Actual software projects will usually combine multiple components that will have to be used together. Most of the time, these components will depend on others, which in turn depend on other components and so on. This makes creating objects in an application hard because we also need to create the objects they depend on and so on. This is where dependency injection comes in handy.

Dependency injection

So what exactly is dependency injection? It turns out to be something really simple—every single class that has an object as a parameter in their constructor actually is an example of a dependency injection. The reason is that the dependency is injected into the class rather than instantiated inside it. Developers should actually try to use this kind of approach instead of creating objects inside a constructor. There are many reasons for this, but one of the most important ones is the fact that components can become tightly coupled and practically untestable.

Dependency...