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Scott Bale's presentation about Guice at the St. Louis JUG tonight is well attended and lively.

You can tell Scott liked Guice. He enumerated all the things about Guice that he liked at the beginning of the talk: small, simple powerful, type safe, no xml, easy to use, etc. It's been my experience that people either really like Guice, or they don't care for it at all.

Scott did the brave thing—he did the presentation mostly in Eclipse, with only a few slides. So once again this is one of those "you have to be there to appreciate it" deals.

The presentation is based around a set of simple examples that covers the basic features of Guice. Content-wise, this presentation is similar to what you can find in Google Video. The interesting bits are the conversations with the audience members. Jeff Grigg, Kyle Cordes, Michael Easter, Rob Smith, Dean Farwell, Jeff Cunningham, et. al. were on hand to make the evening a thought provoking and entertaining one.

As for me, I was too tired from moving my daughter back home from school this afternoon and couldn't focus too well on the code on the screen. And I caught the mentioning of Modules, Injectors, Annotations, Scopes, Providers, SINGLETONs, and the binding DSL. Oh, and we did not bash Spring Framework. Honest.

But no worries, the slides and code samples will be posted on the website in a moment.