Dedication

To my parents

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”

Carl Sagan

Brief Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Praise from the Creator of Guice

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

Chapter 1. Dependency injection: what’s all the hype?

Chapter 2. Time for injection

Chapter 3. Investigating DI

Chapter 4. Building modular applications

Chapter 5. Scope: a fresh breath of state

Chapter 6. More use cases in scoping

Chapter 7. From birth to death: object lifecycle

Chapter 8. Managing an object’s behavior

Chapter 9. Best practices in code design

Chapter 10. Integrating with third-party frameworks

Chapter 11. Dependency injection in action!

Appendix A. The Butterfly Container

Appendix B. SmartyPants for Adobe Flex

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Praise from the Creator of Guice

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

Chapter 1. Dependency injection: what’s all the hype?

1.1. Every solution needs a problem

1.1.1. Seeing objects as services

1.2. Pre-DI solutions

1.2.1. Construction by hand

1.2.2. The Factory pattern

1.2.3. The Service Locator pattern

1.3. Embracing dependency injection

1.3.1. The Hollywood Principle

1.3.2. Inversion of Control vs. dependency injection