After a long period of watching Inversion of Control frameworks, and for some of us avoiding them because of their cumbersome nature, we got together to write what we believe is the simplest possible IoC design. One, perhaps, that considers the so-designed component as more important that the container.
When we set out to do this in 2003, there was nothing equivalent to PicoContainer (xContainer orginally). XWork, that underpinned WebWork2 was a general/embeddable Setter Dependency Injection framework, but not well known. The Spring Framework started in the same timescale, and we were talking to its authors before Martin Fowlers Dependency Injection article. Later we discovered that HiveMind (now at Apache) also was in the same space.
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