September 2, 2009 6:00 PM - 150 attended

Renovate Your Old App With Guice -- Jesse Wilson

Agenda

  • 6:00-6:30pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google
  • 6:30-7:00pm Announcements & Lightning Talks
  • 7:00-8:30pm Guice 2.0 Talk by Jesse Wilson
  • 8:30-9:00pm Raffle off 2 IntelliJ IDEA Licenses provided by JetBrains

Successful applications live a long time, earn a huge set of features, and strain the infrastructure on which they were built. Such projects are usually accompanied by fragile assumptions, insufficient tests, and a slow development process. When we ran into these problems in the AdWords frontend, Bob Lee and Kevin Bourrillion created Guice to save the day.

The Guice dependency injector can help you to untangle complex dependency hairballs into neat modules. This talk will introduce Guice, explain the problems it solves, and how it is used. It will show how you can use Guice to eliminate static state from your Java applications, decouple components, and write better unit tests.

Jesse Wilson is an open source Java nerd. While studying in Waterloo, he created the Glazed Lists toolkit for Swing. Jesse joined Google and immediately became addicted to dependency injection. He led the release of Guice 2.0 in 2009. Currently Jesse works on the Android core libraries and Apache Harmony.

Finally, our members are encouraged to take advantage of these other Silicon Valley GTUG resources:


Disclaimer: The Silicon Valley GTUG is an independent group; our activities and the opinions expressed in this group should in no way be linked to Google, the corporation.

  • Kartik
    Kartik

    Can we get a talk on Guice 2.0 by any member of Guice 2.x team? I don't know if it has happened already but if not, it would be great.

    Posted August 19, 2009 at 11:37 PM
  • Van Riper
    Van Riper

    Just worked out that one of the Guice 2.x team members was available to fulfill your request. Thanks for coming up with my topic for September meeting. =)

    Posted August 20, 2009 at 6:31 PM
  • Mike Villarreal
    Mike Villarreal

    The food was good, but the Guice was better :) Good presentation by Jesse, thanks!

    Posted September 3, 2009 at 1:42 PM

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