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 ...

Developers typically use field injection only on small projects and prototypes, due to its inability to support immutable variables and the incompatibilities it creates with many testing frameworks.

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 ...