Silk   Java Dependency Injection

v0.5 NEW Release on April 2nd 2013

 
Silk DI
a lightweight
Java
Dependency Injection
tool

With Silk your code is no longer cluttered by @annotations to guide the dependency injection. Everything is described in external pure Java declarations provided through a fluent interface.

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protected void bootstrap() {
    install( Silk.class );
}
protected void declare() {
    bind(Awesomeness.class).to(YourApp.class);
}

• Silk DI
• vs. Spring Ioc
• vs. Google Guice
• vs. Pico container

• Lightweight
• Pure Java
• Application code stays independent
• Says NO to magic and pain
• Sequence of declaration is irrelevant
• Pushes for constructor injection
• Injectrons
• Cross-functional programming

Silk allows DI without making your application depend on the DI framework!

• Configuration by pure Java code
• Separated from your application code
• No further runtime dependencies
• No annotations in your code

Silk avoids techniques that are hard to understand, debug or maintain.

• No XML
• No AOP
• No proxies
• No annotations
• No overrides
• No dependency cycles
• No accessible mutable state
• No code generation

Silk has all the features that often require additional libs in other frameworks.

• Declarative, fluent interface
• Multi-binds
• Uniform Generic support
• Easy to utilise or extend
• Scopes
• Services
• Custom Inspection

Silk provides few concepts to configure an app in a predictable and maintainable way.

• Sequence of declarations is irrelevant
• Each part can be considered in isolation
• Simple predictable configuration concepts
• It is easy to remove what you don't like
• Fast bootstrap

Silk is designed for easy development where refactoring does not break an application.

• No importance to sequence of definition
• Safe renaming
• Largely Type-safe
• Excellent Unit-testability
• Pushes for immutability
• Data driven with Value Objects
• A configuration never changes at runtime