Learning Google Guice (Bookzcity)

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Guice appeared amidst various dependency injection frameworks in March 2007.
Handcrafted in Google, Guice offered altogether new experience of developing
applications in Java without having to bother about developing a Factory or calling
new keywords to create instances altogether. After six years, three major releases and
a number of extensions around the core, Guice is thriving. Today, Guice 3.0 stands as
a complete implementation of JSR-330 Injector. Bob Lee, founder of Guice leading the
JSR-330 gives a great impression that philosophy of dependency injection is making
great strides towards improving the way we program in Java. That itself is a big
reason to get ones hands wet with Guice.

My first interaction with Guice happened in fall of 2010, when I was developing a
Maven plugin for code scaffolding in Java. As I had a large code base to generate
the source code itself, wiring dependencies using factories or injecting them through
a constructor was out of question. I investigated various frameworks available for
dependency injection. While most of the frameworks did focus on dependency
injection yet none of them had such variety of rich APIs to bind dependencies to
their implementations in various possible ways. This made Guice my first choice.