Recently we released MacWire 2.0, with a number of new features and general code cleanup. The majority of the work was done by Bruno Bieth – thanks! If you don’t … Continue Reading →
Category Archives: MacWire
MacWire 1.0 is here!
A couple of days ago MacWire 1.0 was released! If you don’t yet know what MacWire is: a light-weight and non-intrusive Scala Dependency Injection library. In fact, it’s more of … Continue Reading →
In today’s post-OO world, is dependency injection still relevant?
It’s 2015. Most of the new popular languages are more or less functional. The old ones, like Java, gain functional programming elements. In Scala, people are increasingly leaning towards the … Continue Reading →
MacWire 0.8.0: towards 1.0, tagging, anonymous functions support
A couple of days ago MacWire 0.8.0 got released. It contains a couple of changes and new features. But first, I’d like to thank Marcin Kubala for his contributions. All … Continue Reading →
MacWire 0.7: dynamically accessing the object graph
MacWire is a Lightweight and Nonintrusive Scala Dependency Injection library. While it would be great to be able to define in a type-safe way the whole object graph for an … Continue Reading →
Using Scala traits as modules, or the “Thin Cake” Pattern
I would like to describe a pure-Scala approach to modularity that we are successfully using in a couple of our Scala projects. But let’s start with how we do Dependency … Continue Reading →
BuildStuff 2013 is over – looking forward to ’14!
I just came back from the BuildStuff conference in Vilnius, Lithuania (actually this was almost a week ago, but I was writing that back at the airport ;) ). Although … Continue Reading →
MacWire 0.5: Interceptors
Interceptors are very useful for implementing cross-cutting concerns. Classic use-cases include security, logging or transaction support. Since version 0.5, MacWire contains an implementation of interceptors which can be applied to … Continue Reading →
Dependency Injection in Play! with MacWire
The most recent release of MacWire (0.4) (a Scala macro to generate wiring code for class instantiation, DI container replacement) comes with new utilities which make it easier to integrate … Continue Reading →
Implementing factories in Scala & MacWire 0.3
Factories are useful when we need to create multiple instances of a class at run-time, usually providing some parameters, but still without using new explicitly; we want to make some … Continue Reading →