From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-03-20T06:54:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Copland tutorials

Kirk Haines wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.)
> 
> 
> Jamis, my thoughts after reading through your documentation were much the 
> same as Charles'.  "The concept sounds interesting, and the examples are 
> easy to follow, but with just a read through the doc and a few minutes of 
> thought, I'm not really comprehending why I would want/need to use this."
> 
> I think you need an introduction that doesn't get into any code at all, 
> but simply lays out at a high level why Copland could make my life better, 
> with a couple of examples.

I did a presentation on dependency inversion at our local Java users 
group.  You can find it at

    http://onestepback.org/articles/dependencyinjection/index.html

It might be helpful.

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