Decide whether to switch to Spring #55

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1. ctrueden

   added this to the 1.0.0 milestone on Apr 29, 2021
2. hinerm commented on Jul 19, 2021

   

   hinerm

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   As part of that, we'd like to know whether there is a dependency-free way (e.g. XML?) to declare implementations of interfaces

   You can definitely declare interface implementations via XML. See creating beans, for example.
3. hinerm commented on Jul 19, 2021

   

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   We need to seriously explore whether Spring is usable as a replacement for the current application container / dependency injection / plugin mechanisms.

   How are we defining "usable"? Are there any particular use-cases of the SciJava Context that go beyond IoC/DI that need to verify have an analog in Spring? Otherwise the only showstoppers to adoption that come to my mind:

   • Application size (a bare-bones spring boot app has 29MB of deps so I think no problem there)
   • License (Apache 2.0, no problem)
   • Application startup time impact (this does need to be tested to know scan time of a Fiji classpath)

   Otherwise I think this issue is mostly about:

   1. Determining a migration path
   2. Estimating the time to apply that migration path to all our projects (if necessary - it may be possible to just tell Spring how to suck in the SciJava @Plugin interface)
   3. Decide if we have enough bandwidth for the migration
4. hinerm commented on Jul 19, 2021

   

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   For more info, see IoC mechanisms in spring.

   Basically you get:

   • XML
   • Annotations
   • "Java-based" with @Configuration

   I believe these can all safely co-exist with each other.

   👍React with 👍2Reacted by Curtis Rueden and Gabriel Selzer
5. ctrueden

   modified the milestones: 1.0.0, unscheduled on Feb 18, 2022
6. ctrueden

   added a commit that references this issue on May 2, 2024

   Merge pull request #55 from scijava/scijava/scijava-ops-api/op-utils-…

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