Could the open source agile, lightweight Google Guice be the next Spring? According to many, apparently so. Impressions are that it’s more agile or lighter then even the Spring Framework.
We’ll see. I think it’s too soon to judge and compare with Spring Framework. What do you think?
And what does this mean for JBoss Seam, if anything?
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Mar 27, 09:40 am
Honestly, from taking a quick look at it, i do not think its going to be competition to Spring or Seam.
Spring is MUCH MUCH more than a dependency injection framework. Spring provides injection to do web services, dao’s, etc. Guice is more of a pure injection framework and could not replace most Spring apps. Now simplistic Spring apps that ONLY make use of the IoC, it could replace and quite well.
As far as JBoss Seam. Not sure. The Bijection of Seam is MUCH more complex than Guice or Spring. Seam uses thread safe bijection which is what it allows you to use class level variables with Stateless Session Beans and Seam.
This being all said, Guice does look interesting and I can definetly see it being used in conjunction with present frameworks as opposed to replacing them.