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Martin Fowler has pubished a new article:

In the Java community there's been a rush of lightweight containers that help to assemble components from different projects into a cohesive application. Underlying these containers is a common pattern to how they perform the wiring, a concept they refer under the very generic name of "Inversion of Control". In this article I dig into how this pattern works, give it the more specific name of "Dependency Injector", and contrast it with the Service Locator alternative. The choice between them is less important than the principle of separating configuration from use.

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