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The Dependency Inversion Principle says "the interface belongs to the client." As I've said elsewhere, adopting this principle means a reversing of the way applications used to be built: Design the ...

Take advantage of the dependency injection principle to provide support for pluggable implementations in your application and build loosely coupled, testable components The Dependency Inversion ...

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 ...

In my last article, I detailed a high-level comparison of two dependency injection frameworks: Guice and Spring. As I mentioned then, although they both fully embrace the principles of DI, they have ...

Using a composition root will differ based on the type of application, as it should be as close to the application's entry point as possible. The idea is that the composition root will contain all of ...