current status of Guice

[Ron]

Hi All

It seems the activities around Guice, both in terms of the discussions here and the commits in the Github repo seems to have slowed right down.

What is the current status, are people moving away? 

I successfully delivered a number of projects using Guice in it's early days, around 6 years ago. Then I moved away from Java but came back to it last year. The project I picked up had code running on Struts and Spring, I ripped that all out and put in a simple action based framework on top of Guice. The final result had 5 times original functionality with at least 50% reduction in dependencies and a slight reduction in total code base size. Also zero XML based configuration. (Not saying that this will always be the case, a lot is probably due to the state of the current code, and the project requirements)

I'm about to embark on a new project and would be keen to use the same framework again.

However, I'm concerned as to why activities have completely died down, are people moving away? If so to what? Dagger? Spring?

Thanks

Ron

  

[Ronnie Roller]

Just speaking for myself where I used guice across amazon and oracle on numerous projects, for me Guice is feature complete. I’m happy where it is and don’t particular need anything else.  I continue to use it. 

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[David Sowerby]

I'd echo that - it's always difficult to judge whether an open source project is becoming less active because it is falling out of favour, or it has just reached maturity and needs little to be done.  I'd say Guice is definitely in the latter category

On 22 November 2017 at 15:26, Ronnie Roller <ronnie...@oracle.com> wrote:

Just speaking for myself where I used guice across amazon and oracle on numerous projects, for me Guice is feature complete. I’m happy where it is and don’t particular need anything else.  I continue to use it. 

On Nov 22, 2017, at 6:10 AM, Ron <ronst...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All

It seems the activities around Guice, both in terms of the discussions here and the commits in the Github repo seems to have slowed right down.

What is the current status, are people moving away? 

I successfully delivered a number of projects using Guice in it's early days, around 6 years ago. Then I moved away from Java but came back to it last year. The project I picked up had code running on Struts and Spring, I ripped that all out and put in a simple action based framework on top of Guice. The final result had 5 times original functionality with at least 50% reduction in dependencies and a slight reduction in total code base size. Also zero XML based configuration. (Not saying that this will always be the case, a lot is probably due to the state of the current code, and the project requirements)

I'm about to embark on a new project and would be keen to use the same framework again.

However, I'm concerned as to why activities have completely died down, are people moving away? If so to what? Dagger? Spring?

Thanks

Ron

  

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David

[Stephan Classen]

Guice never had a lot of activity in the open source area.
There was once a Apache project (Onami) which became abandoned a few years ago.

I feel Google is not very interested in a vivid community around Guice. Maybe they have enough internal factors driving Guice and do not want too many community driven changes which may conflict with their internal needs.

Never the less Guice is a very mature and stable piece of software.

As you mentioned the two alternatives are Spring and Dagger.

Spring is a framework where as Guice is a library. This means with Spring you not only get dependency injection but can easily add many more functionalities.

Dagger on the other end is focusing on performance over functionality. Also they have a annotation processor which does compile time validation. As a consequence of this they cannot offer all the functionalities Guice does (like injecting unannotated classes with an empty default constructor).

Hope this helps, and as always we would like to hear more about how the future of Guice is seen by Google ;)

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[Filipe Sousa]

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