Comments on: Micro-IoC functionality to be in next Java version

By: fletch

fletch — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:31:16 +0000

Ah, good old constructors. You’re quite right, they are a form of inversion of control (look ma, no XML). Unfortunately, just about everyone seemed to have forgotten them and tended to write code that looked more like this:

public class SomeObject {

public void doSomething() {
Context.lookup(“service”).doSomething();
}
}

which is not nearly as nice.

By: Cenk Civici

Cenk Civici — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:46:36 +0000

Cool :) wish I had figured this out at the beginning of my current project.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:18:36 +0000

Too much coffee today? :-p

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:56:30 +0000

I guess Sam’s object is one of these:

package com.magpiebrain;

public class Object {

public Object(Object somethingINeedToWork) { ... }

public void makePoint() { }

}

BTW Sam, ta for drawing my attention to that. I posted the comment I really wanted to write here on my blog ‘cos it was too long.

By: Sam Newman

Sam Newman — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:56:25 +0000

Forcing email is an (outmoded) form of spam prevention – mostly it’s so I can write people back if they said something interesting/cyber-stalk you if you insulted me – as the form says though, I don’t display it…

By: Dustin Aleksiuk

Dustin Aleksiuk — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:36:45 +0000

Despite the lack of an Object(Object) constructor in real life, this blog entry rulez.

Maybe there is an Object(Object) constructor anyway. How should I know. I’m Not A Java Programmer.

Also, forcing me to give you my email address to post here is STUPID.

By: Sam Newman

Sam Newman — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:36:00 +0000

I bet if we could implement this new paradigm (as in paradignism) into Ruby, it would be even better, and would automatically make the program, and everyone associated with it, better too!

By: Aslak Hellesoy

Aslak Hellesoy — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 05:56:51 +0000

Sam has added the Object(Object) ctor with Annotations, AOP and RoR. It’s very nice for Ajax.

By: Carlos Villela

Carlos Villela — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:08:17 +0000

Hey, where’s the Object(Object) constructor? I looked at the Javadocs for Java 5, and there was nothing there. Is can’t be some clever Mustang trick, cause you mention that’s been around for years… are you sure you’re not using J# or some other implementation of Java? :)

What a pity, though. That constructor would be so nice. Object being its own wrapper class is the way to go for all the Java devs who feel their code is not yet running on too many layers of barely-hidden (abstracted?) complexity.