Episode 58
This week I was planning to publish introduction to Amazon Web Services, but since I’m working on preparing Spring-based web applications development course for Wrocław University of Technology students with my two colleagues, I decided to change the schedule a bit. I planned to write few articles about Spring framework anyway, but in order to fit everything before particular classes in March and April I need to start exactly now.
I wrote a Spring Hello World article over two years ago actually, but today I wanted to talk a bit more about some fundamental concepts: Inversion of Control and dependency injection. Let us take a closer look at application structure, configuration, components and wiring. There will be quite a lot of code snippets. If you would like to play with complete application working out of the box, visit my GitHub project Spring Angular Intro. The application is based on the one I prepared for Angular Intro article in September 2016, but now we will focus on back-end exclusively. This tag corresponds to project state at the time of writing this article.
Concepts
Classic approach to program structure is that we write custom, high-level code which calls lower level code. The flow of control goes from our code to a generic framework or libraries. Inversion of control is a technique, where Read the rest of this entry »
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