Developers typically use field injection only on small projects and prototypes, due to its inability to support immutable variables and the incompatibilities it creates with many testing frameworks.

Before you can begin refactoring, you need to know what to look for. I'm a very visual person, so whenever I work on refactoring a large or complex application, I begin by whiteboarding all components ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how a good software team will defer decisions as long as possible. Smart teams will design and build systems that don’t lock them into any particular implementation ...

In my last article, I detailed a high-level comparison of two dependency injection frameworks: Guice and Spring. As I mentioned then, although they both fully embrace the principles of DI, they have ...