Dependency injection is a software design pattern that helps you to build pluggable implementations in your application using loosely coupled, testable components. It eliminates the hard-coded ...

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Before you can begin refactoring, you need to know what to look for. I'm a very visual person, so whenever I work on refactoring a large or complex application, I begin by whiteboarding all components ...

Ondrej Balas continues his series on refactoring code for dependency injection, looking at patterns and strategies for changing application behavior after it has already been compiled. So far in this ...

Dependency injection enables you to inject dependencies in your application and in doing so, you can separate the implementation from the interface. In essence, dependency injection enables you to ...

This series of articles introduces Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), a key part of the soon to be finalized Java EE 6 platform. Standardized via JSR 299, CDI is the de-facto API for ...