The Peer Frameworks Series - .
Net and Java
Spring Framework Developer Session
Chris Donnan
&
Solomon Duskis
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Overview
600- 630
Light Snack
630 700
Introduction to Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection and
other core concepts.
700 730
Spring Framework - .Net Session
730 800
Spring Framework Java Session
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About Us
Chris Donnan
Senior Software Engineer at Finetix - servicing investment banking clients
Contact me at : [email protected]
Blog: http://blog.chrisdonnan.com
Solomon Duskis
Solomon Duskis is a Senior Consultant at Finetix. He has worked with
clients in a variety of fields including financial, insurance, publishing, and
medicine. Over the last three years he has worked at clients with some
level of Spring Framework deployments. His technical ramblings can be
found at http://www.jroller.com/page/Solomon
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Spring Top Level Overview and History
The history of spring. Where did Spring come from and why?
J2EE problems
Rod Johnson and his book
Started in 2002/2003
1.0 version in 2004
Where is Spring being used?
The parts of spring
Java
.Net
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Spring for Java
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Spring for .Net
Web
AOP
Desktop
Windows Services
Services
3rd Party
Integration
Data Access
Core
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Dependency Resolution
Plain old way
new your dependencies
Service Locator
use a locator to get instances of your dependencies
Dependency Injection
Get your dependencies handed to you.
These all imply certain couplings
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Plain old dependency creation
Example:
public class Foo {
private IBar bar;
private IBaz baz;
public Foo() {
bar = new SomeBar();
baz = new SomeBaz();
}
}
Characteristics
Cons
Your class depends upon all its
dependencies depend on.
Your class must know how to
assemble instances of its
dependencies and their
dependencies.
Hard to change behavior without
opening code
Hard to test as you must also test
depends. Cannot use mocks.
Pros
Easy to understand
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Service Locator
Example:
Characteristics
public class Foo {
Cons
private IBar bar;
private IBaz baz;
private IServiceLocator locator;
public Foo(IServiceLocator locator_) {
locator = locator_;
bar = locator.Get(
ServiceNames.BAR
);
baz = new SomeBaz(
ServicesNames.BAZ
);
}
Your class depends upon the service
locator
You must still get the locator to the
class either statically (yuk) or via
some sort of injection like mechanism
Pros
Easy to understand
Testable
Flexible
Extensible
Enforces separation of interface from
implementation
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Inversion of Control
Example:
Characteristics
public class Foo {
private IBar bar;
private IBaz baz;
public Foo(IBar bar_, IBaz baz_) {
bar = bar_;
baz = baz_;
}
}
Cons
You must create dependencies to
pass along
Pros
Easy to understand
Testable
Flexible
Extensible
Enforces separation of interface
from implementation
Code is simple and clear
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Inversion Of Control
Inversion Of Control, Dependency Injection, The Hollywood Principal
etc.
In stead of instantiating concrete class
references in your class, depend on an
abstraction and allow your concrete
dependencies to be given to you.
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Injection Types
Setter Injection
Pass dependencies in via mutators/ property setters
Constructor Injection
Pass dependencies in via constructor
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Without IoC
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Concrete Class Dependency
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Allow dependency to be passed in
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Same thing with property setter
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The problem with IoC by itself
To build these objects now takes assembling the whole object graph
of dependencies!!! What a pain!!!
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Containers to the rescue
The solution is a container to manage the complex creation,
lifecycle, etc.
This is where Spring comes in.
To manage complex object assembly
I ask for object named Y the container gets any dependencies for that
type, creates then or gets cached instances gives them to the object I am
trying to get and returns me that object. I then use this object as I normally
would.
To manage object lifecycles
Singleton-ness or Non-Singleton-ness
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Springs Heart
At its core Spring is a framework for wiring up
your entire application.
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Object Factory
Object Factory
The thing that creates object instances for you
You ask the object factory for a named item it returns an instance to
you either a singleton or a prototype.
Singleton
There is 1 and only 1 instance
Each time you ask the object factory for one you get the same one
Prototype
This is a non-singleton
Each time you ask the object factory for one you get a new one
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Object factory as a Service Locator
Ideally you could use Spring to ask for an object at the top level of
your application and it would give you back an entire object graph
of fully baked objects. That said this is not always feasable.
You can use Spring as a service locator or as an implementation
detail of your service locator. Service locator is a great alternative to
IoC especially when things like UI designers New your objects in
for you. Depending on how you do this you could be more or less
tied to spring (that is not great). In the past I have tried to make
spring an implementation detail and hide it behind my own
abstraction for locator.
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Why IoC with a Container
Support programming best practices:
Separation of interface from implementation
Allows you to substitute implementation
Code is smaller and cleaner program your intent not how to create
your dependencies and their dependencies etc.
The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
Depend upon Abstractions. Do not depend upon concretions.
The Open Closed Principle (OCP)
A module should be open for extension but closed for modification. Of all the
principles of object oriented design, this is the most important. It originated
from the work of Bertrand Meyer . It means simply this: We should write our
mod-ules so that they can be extended, without requiring them to be modified.
In other words, we want to be able to change what the modules do, without
changing the source code of the modules.
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Why IoC - continued
Testability
You can substitute implementation specifically pass in a Mock object so
you only write code to test the code you are writing. You are NOT testing
the code in your dependencies.
Manages assembly of complex objects for you!
Reduce coupling of code
Easy reconfiguration
Reusability increase due to decoupling
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Other IoC Related Frameworks
Hivemind
Pico Container
Copeland
StructureMap
EJB 3
JBoss Seam
Object Builder in Microsoft CAB
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Spring Framework .net
.Net presentation
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Spring Framework Java
Java presentation
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The Big Picture
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The Peer Frameworks Series - .Net and Java
1) Spring Framework Developer Session - SpringFramework.net,
SpringFramework.org
2) Test Drive Development Developer Session - NUnit, JUnit;
Rhino Mocks in .net and Easy Mock in Java
3) Db4o Developer Session - Open Source Object Database in .net
and Java
4) ORM Developer Session - Hibernate, NHibernate / IBatis
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References
http://SpringFramework.org
http://SpringFramework.net
http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html
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Ruby does IoC
Concrete Implementations
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