Monthly Archives: November 2004

Dependency Injection != Service Locator

Part of any Dependency Injection (DI) solution is some sort of registry that contains all of the configured objects with their declared dependencies resolved. In Spring this is the ApplicationContext, and in PicoContainer it’s, well, the PicoContainer. An alternative application … Continue reading

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Bioinformatics Project Management

So far bioinformaticians have, publicly at least, focused mainly on science. Any given conference or journal is full of papers about algorithms and newly available software tools. Conspicuously absent, at least to me, is any discussion of the software development … Continue reading

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Directory Services: DNS and LDAP

While attending the caBIG Architecture Workspace face-to-face in Chicago last month, I realized during a discussion that I probably didn’t know enough about directory services. One of the major challenges faced in designing the caBIG architecture is the matter of … Continue reading

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