Not Yet Guicy Enough

I finally looked into using Guice to wire dependencies for a pet project. If you're interested in evaluating it I recommend you read the TSS Guice debate. In the end I decided against it. The turn-off for me was the pain involved in wiring constant values to bean properties. Yuck.

I'm not convinced about mixing code and DI data. I like that Spring separates the two. On the other hand I dislike the way Spring XMLs tend to grow so large, and that refactoring tools can easily miss references to classes in the config XML.

So no Guice for me just yet.

Small Change

Wow. It's been almost three weeks since I posted a blog entry. Things have been hectic as we've been getting our wedding celebrations organised. I'll be all quite for the next month too as we'll be in New Mexico and then England. I'll leave you with a link to this rather interesting post (ok, I like the pictures!) and follow on comments: Willem on Small Change