Dependency injection is a programming technique to reduce component coupling. Dependency injection is also commonly known as “inversion of control” or IoC or sometimes as The Hollywood Principle – “Don’t call us, we’ll call you”.

Presentations

• Designing with Dependency Injection: PowerPoint – KeyNote

Links and Blogs

• Martin Fowler: Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern – the canonical reference on Dependeny Injection, must read
• Rickard Oberg: Dependency injection and open vs. closed designs
• Bob Lee, Getter-Based Dependency Injection
• Cedric Beust: Getter-Based Injection
• Mitch Denny: IOC and .NET
• Daniel Cazullino: Lightweight Containers and Plugin Architectures: Dependency Injection and Dynamic Service Locators in .NET
• Jim Weirich Dependency Injection in Ruby
• Dave Thomas: Transparent Inversion of Control
• Sony Mathew: Examining the Validity of Inversion of Control
• Bob Lee: I Don’t Get Spring and I Was Too Hard on Spring…
• Ales Justin: Spring and EJB 3.0 in Harmony – added 2/28/06
• Adrian: The New Holy Trinity – added 3/8/06
• Neal Ford: Dependency Injection in Apache Geronimo – added 3/10/06

Projects

• Spring
• Pico
• Hivemind
• Needle for Ruby