From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-03-20T00:38:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Copland tutorials

Charles Comstock wrote:

> I skimmed through them, they seemed reasonably informative.  It might 
> help if you had some example code that showed a sort of before/after, 
> demonstrating how much cleaner the code was through your method, as I 
> guess I'm not quite following the advantage.  That or a small case study 
> of a good application to use this for.  That or a link showing 
> equivalent examples offsite somewhere even if it is in another language.
> 
>     Charles Comstock


Thanks for your input, Charles. I'll try the before/after approach, 
though I fear it won't be a very dramatic different for such small 
applications as the tutorials. (Frankly, IoC is really only useful for 
larger, enterprise-scale applications. Smaller applications may actually 
be negatively impacted by using IoC.)

I do have a small case study that demonstrates the power of IoC.  It is 
on the main Copland page (http://copland.rubyforge.org). Just scroll 
down until you get to the section titled "Inversion of Control" (in 
particular, the subsection titled "Dependency Injection in Action"). I 
probably need to refactor the documentation and find a better way to 
navigate between it all...

And I'll see what I can do about finding some offsite examples.  I know 
I've seen some impressive ones in Java--I'm sure they would do to show 
the power of IoC.

Thanks again!

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

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