dagger

I’ve written some time ago about Dagger 2. However, I still don’t understand every nook and cranny. In particular, the @Singleton annotation can be quite misleading as user Zhuiden was kind enough to point out: If you create a new ApplicationComponent each time you inject, you will get a new instance in every place where you inject; and you will not actually have singletons where you expect singletons. An ApplicationComponent should be managed by the Application and made accessibl

As a backend software developer, I’m used to Spring as my favorite Dependency Injection engine. Alternatives include Java EE’s CDI which achieves the same result - in a different way. However, both inject at runtime: that means that there’s a definite performance cost to pay at the start of the application, the time it takes for all dependencies to be fulfilled. On an application server, where the application lifespan is measured in days (if not weeks), the start time overhead i