Ian Robertson's Weblog http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=ianr Artima Weblogs is a community of bloggers posting on a wide range of topics of interest to software developers. Artima.com http://www.artima.com/images/artima88x33.gif http://www.artima.com/ Service Locator Pattern Revisited, Part 2 http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=238700 Once the boilerplate traditionally associated with the Service Locator Pattern is eliminated, one of the key motivations for Dependency Injection is reduced, if not eliminated. This article, the second of a two part series, looks at the pros and cons of each approach to interacting with services. Service Locator Pattern Revisited, Part 1 http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=238562 Traditional implementations of the Service Locator Pattern result in a large amount of boilerplate code. This article, the first of a two part series, shows that this is not a necessary weakness. A case for member literals in Java http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=218314 Allowing static references to class members could greatly increase Java's type-safe expressive capability. Reflecting generics http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208860 Type arguments to generic classes are not available for reflection at runtime - or are they? The type arguments for statically declared types can be discovered at runtime. A look at how to do this, and why you might want to.