AYayewo·Nov 27, 2022
Would Google Guice count?
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Guice (pronounced 'juice') is a lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 11 and above, brought to you by Google.
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Guice (pronounced 'juice') is a lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 11 and above, brought to you by Google.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 sourcesRe: static factory methods - Those are called just once (so perf isn't really the point).
With respect to non-perf reasons, Factories should also be non-static.
Here's why:
1. Factories that are part of a dependency injection framework (Guice, Dagger, Spring) are actually "objects" that the DI framework is moving around. These DI frameworks already enforce object creation (see: https://github.com/google/guice/wiki/GettingStarted for example -- everything is an object).
2. public static factory classes have significant disadvantages (eg. depending on another factory class is a direct, "hardcoded" brittle dependency). Avoiding this is straightforward - create factory objects (aka Modules) and register it with the DI framework (the only public static "singleton" object) - when an object is needed, ask for it and the DI framework will give it
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to you (implicitly through the factory).
Ask HN: Google Guice another abandonware from Google?
It's been already 4 months since JDK17 was released, but Guice (one of the most popular Java dependency injection frameworks) still didn't release required compatibility changes [1]. There looks to be zero contact with maintainers at Google. In the meantime Spring was ready for JDK17 in July (3 months before JDK17 GA) [2]
For years I advocated to use Guice at my companies, as it's considerably less bloated than Spring. Now I'm starting to get some heat on this as it's clear that the support is just not there. Is this the right time to accept the defeat and start migrating back to Spring?
[1]
https://github.com/google/guice/issues/1536
[2] https://twitter.com/snicoll/status/1420652097373188100
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