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Java 9 Dependency Injection

By : Nilang Patel, Krunal Patel
Book Image

Java 9 Dependency Injection

By: Nilang Patel, Krunal Patel

Overview of this book

Dependency Injection (DI) is a design pattern that allows us to remove the hard-coded dependencies and make our application loosely coupled, extendable, and maintainable. We can implement DI to move the dependency resolution from compile-time to runtime. This book will be your one stop guide to write loosely coupled code using the latest features of Java 9 with frameworks such as Spring 5 and Google Guice. We begin by explaining what DI is and teaching you about IoC containers. Then you’ll learn about object compositions and their role in DI. You’ll find out how to build a modular application and learn how to use DI to focus your efforts on the business logic unique to your application and let the framework handle the infrastructure work to put it all together. Moving on, you’ll gain knowledge of Java 9’s new features and modular framework and how DI works in Java 9. Next, we’ll explore Spring and Guice, the popular frameworks for DI. You’ll see how to define injection keys and configure them at the framework-specific level. After that, you’ll find out about the different types of scopes available in both popular frameworks. You’ll see how to manage dependency of cross-cutting concerns while writing applications through aspect-oriented programming. Towards the end, you’ll learn to integrate any third-party library in your DI-enabled application and explore common pitfalls and recommendations to build a solid application with the help of best practices, patterns, and anti-patterns in DI.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Guice injection


As we know what dependency injection is, let us explore how Google Guice provides injection.

We have seen that the injector helps to resolve dependencies by reading configurations from modules, which are called bindings. Injector is preparing charts for the requested objects.

Dependency injection is managed by injectors using various types of injection:

  • Constructor injection
  • Method injection
  • Field injection
  • Optional injection
  • Static injection

Constructor Injection

Constructor injection can be achieved  by using the @Inject annotation at the constructor level. This constructor ought to acknowledge class dependencies as arguments. Multiple constructors will, at that point, assign the arguments to their final fields:

public class AppConsumer {

  private NotificationService notificationService;

  //Constructor level Injection
  @Inject
  public AppConsumer(NotificationService service){
       this.notificationService=service;
  }

  public boolean sendNotification(String message, String...