June 26, 2008
PicoContainer 2.4 released (253K jar)
New (since 2.3):
- Locking behaviors are now characterizable as LOCK and NO_LOCK
- Synchronizing behaviors are now characterizable as SYNCHRONIZE and NO_SYNCHRONIZE
- Pooling behaviors are now characterizable as NO_POOL and POOL
- HotSwapping behaviors are now characterizable as HOT_SWAP and NO_HOT_SWAP
Changes (versus 2.3):
- Visitor for trees of PicoContainers, can issue a halt instruction now to stop the visitation early
- PICO-0316 fixed, whereby iterative injectors would not always find the dependencies to inject, when there were present
June 26, 2008
PicoContainer 2.4 released (241K jar)
New (since 2.3):
- FactoryInjector implementations for Log4J, Commons-logging, Java-Logging and SL4FJ
- JSR-250 compatible (@PreDestroy and @PostConstruct) lifecycle strategy
- Slf4j based component monitor
- Visitor for component factories (PICO-221)
- Thread local Storing behavior now has a mechanism to report the store size
Changes (versus 2.2):
- Implementation-hiding Behavior has a bug PICO-310 that has been fixed
- FactoryInjection bug fixed - PICO-311
- Embedded Paranamer now upgraded to 1.1.3
- Some of the monitors are now serializable when they were not formerly
May 9, 2008
PicoContainer 2.2 released (224K jar)
New (since 2.1):
- A new TieringPicoContainer that when used in a container tree, forbids children from seeking dependencies from their grandparents (they can only seek such from their parents)
- A new ReusablePicoContainer that is 2.5x faster for some niche usages where you are repeatedly discarding a container and then repopulating it (Gems)
- NamedFieldInjection allows named fields to be injected into (per component) - use when AnnotatedFieldInjection is not what you want
- TypedFieldInjection allows fields of a specified type to be injected into (per component) - use when AnnotatedFieldInjection is not what you want
- CompositeInjection allows a very custom setup of what injection-types you want your instance to support. Use when speed of execution is of the essence and AdaptiveInjection is not
right for you.
- Decorating (behavior factory) - do something to a component instance immediately after its instantiation (and formal injection)
- FactoryAdapter - Allows for a custom instance to be injected into a component. E.g. 'new Logger(Foo.class)' for a Logger type and a Foo instance being the injectee
Changes (versus 2.1):
- Teams embedding PicoContainer and (completely hiding it from user communities) can extend StartableLifecycleStrategy and provide their own Startable interface (was buggy)
Mar 31, 2008
PicoContainer 2.1 released (194K jar)
New (since 2.0):
- A new ComponentMonitor method to allow allow for better mocking of select components during unit testing.
Jan 19, 2008
PicoContainer 2.0 released (190K jar)
New (since 2.0-beta-2):
- Binding Annotations support (disambiguation)
- Newer and rewritten properties backed containers
- Parameter names can be leveraged for all relevant types of injection
Changes (versus 2.0-beta-2):
- Yet More Java5 generics
- Build moved to JUnit 4.x and JMock 2.x (does not affect users of PicoContainer)
- Built-in parameter name access, as opposed jar dependency
August 26, 2007
PicoContainer 2.0 beta 2 released (152K jar)
New (versus 2.0-beta-1):
- Rudimentary AOP capability for components built in
- Method Injection (one method post-construction with multiple arguments)
- Automatic JNDI exposure
- Multi Injection (Setter and after Constructor injection)
- Store behavior (can extract/replace component store per thread)
- Automatic components (instantiate irrespective of need)
- Reentrant-Lock version of Synchronizing behavior
Changes (versus 2.0-beta-1):
- Better Java5 generics
- Renames of behaviors and injectors to more verb-like style
- Startable interface more easily overridden to own choice
July 15, 2007
PicoContainer 2.0 BETA-1 released (128K jar)
New:
- Properties for components as they are added to containers makes for increased flexibility
- Field and Method annotation types of injection in addition to traditional Constructor (recommended) and Setter types
- Parameters names for constructors can now drive otherwise ambiguous injections, as well as configuration
- Large sets of configuration can be taken from properties files and command line arguments
- PicoBuilder to make a container with desired behavior.
Changes:
- Java 5 style (use of generics, varargs, among others)
- Large scale Refactoring of packages and class names
- Fluent interface for adding of components to a container
Mar 18, 2007
PicoContainer 1.3 released (113K jar)
January 19, 2006
PicoContainer 1.2 released (112K jar)
November 4, 2004
PicoContainer 1.1 released (75K jar)
June 5, 2004
PicoContainer 1.0 released (49K jar)
June 29, 2003
PicoContainer 1.0 alpha (25K jar)