Spring's IoC

well, after looking at many frameworks outta there, I decide that it is now my time to see what Spring is actually (though I never need it in my current job, at least I might learn some new ideas/pattern which maybe I could use in my code ;).

Here is the point that has interest me during my Spring's introduction reading :

Inversion of Control / Dependency Injection

Why does it interest me? ... maybe because I'm somehow a design pattern freak :)

ok, let's continue...
In order to find out more about IoC, I read these links below :

• http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html (thanks to Martin Fowler)
• http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/27583 (thanks to Mani Malarvannan)

Now, I know that Dependency Injection is an Inversion of Control, but not vice versa (at first I think that both terms refer to the same things) and I just realized that I've met with IoC since the first time I write codes in GUI environment(event based) after many years playing (read : coding) in DOS environment.

btw, maybe it's surprising to see a developer using Spring which didn't understand IoC/DI clearly. They're just another "copy-paste" & "trial and error" developer, which sadly I believe quite many.
I'm a believer in "you must understand what you're doing".


hmm... that's all for now, still a long introduction to read :)


peace