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Discussion of Dependency Inversion, Dependency Injection, Dependency Lookup, Configurable Receiver and Inversion of Control

May, 2023

"Dependency" refers ambiguously to a compile-time or run-time dependency. "Inverting" something says to do the "not" of some other, unnamed thing. As a consequence, dependency inversion, dependency injection, dependency lookup and inversion of control are often mixed together in incorrect ways, including in Wikipedia and other expert definitions (!).
Let's work through them all.

PDF here: https://alistaircockburn.com/Discussion of dependency inversion etc.pdf

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