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Dependency Injection Options for Java

Shannon Griswold Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Java 12 Comments

Attention: The following article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.I wanted to take some time to put together a summary of some popular dependency injection (DI) frameworks for Java. This is a high-level overview of what’s available. First off, what is …

An argument against defaulting to auto-increment primary keys

Shannon Griswold Articles, Databases, Java 11 Comments

Attention: The following article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.The de-facto “easy” primary key for ages has been the auto-incrementing integer. Upon insertion of a new record, the database simply increments a counter for the table and uses the new value …