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Chapter 49. Inversion Of Control

49.1. Overview
49.2. How
49.3. Injection
49.4. Side effects

The services are not responsible for the instantiation of the components on which they depend.

This architecture provides a loosely coupled design where the implementation of dependant services can be transparently exchanged.

This pattern has several names :

Don't let the object create itself the instances of the object that it references. This job is delegated to the container (assembler in the picture).

There are two ways to inject a dependency :

Using a constructor:

public ServiceA(ServiceB serviceB)

Using setter methods:

public void setServiceB(ServiceB serviceB)

When a client service can not be stored in the container then the service locator pattern is used:

public ServiceA(){
   this.serviceB =Container.getSInstance().getService(ServiceB.class);
}