From Plexus to Guice (#3): Creating a Guice Bean Extension Layer
In the first two articles in this series you learned why Sonatype has decided to move our development efforts from Plexus to Guice and you’ve also been introduced to Sonatype’s efforts to create a Guice/Plexus integration library to make the migration from Plexus to Guice seamless. In this post, I’m going to dive into the details of bean injection in Guice, and I’m going to demonstrate how you can use the general-purpose bean injection layer in the Guice/Plexus integation library to intialize a bean. This post is highly technical and is meant for developers interested in the details of our attempts to bridge Plexus and Guice. (more…)
Plexus Container Five Minute Tutorial
The goal of this blog is to show an updated and more involved example then what is currently located on the plexus site. This will cover creating a couple of components and explain the different ways to inject your dependencies. This example assumes you are using maven 2 to make your life easier.
