Guice Book Released!
March 28, 2008
I should really get some sleep, but I can’t wait to get the word out. The book I was working on “Google Guice: Agile Lightweight Dependency Injection Framework” has gone live! It’s available in ebook and print-on-demand formats.
Apart from the title, I think the book reflects the fact that I’m a no-nonsense guy. I’m just like you, interested in new technology and I want to see this Guice thing in action. They did that with dependency injection? Hell yes; let’s see why they did it, and who they killed to get there (just kidding :-)).
So, months later I look on Amazon, and see this:
You can get my humble work together with the best Java book ever. That alone was so worth it :-)
Thanks again to Apress, Bob, Dhanji and the Guice community: I couldn’t have done it without you.
Guice, Spring 2.5 and Finding Mistakes Early
March 15, 2008
Yesterday I gave a talk on Guice at the Profict Wintercamp! The goal of the event was to look at how Guice changes the Spring landscape by letting both sides present their framework. From the Guice side there was me (thanks Bob, for not being able to come! ;-)), from the Spring side there was Alef Arendsen.
Surprisingly, there was only one Guice user present! They should have given us an “I went to the Profict Wintercamp and I lived.” t-shirt. :-) No seriously, I had a great time and enjoyed talking to other developers and the guys from SpringSource. Let’s hope I convinced some people to take a look at Guice!
Right before the talk I had some time to spare, so I quickly threw together a Guice demo application that I then re-implemented using the Spring 2.5 new annotation-driven configuration options. Next, I decided to take a look at how Spring compares with Guice in terms of error detection and error handling. This has always been one of Guice’s strengths, but it’s also one of those “nice-to-haves”. It’s like a cell phone. You don’t miss it until you have one. All those Spring users don’t know what they are missing!
The example code can be found here, and the error handling comparison can be found here. I’ll upload the presentation and the packaged source code soon. Enjoy!
