Chapter 49. Inversion Of Control

Overview
How
Injection
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);
}