This Thursday night I’m giving a presentation on Guice at the St. Louis Java Users Group. Come on out and see!

My talk is shaping up to be mostly code and very few slides. In the first half I will be demonstrating the basics of Guice, what it is and what it can do, via the usual simple contrived code samples that you would expect. In the second half I hope to address how you might introduce Guice to an existing codebase. Specifically, I want to look at Guice’s integration with Spring, and also look at some basic strategies for refactoring out smelly code like Singletons or tightly coupled spaghetti code.

Boy, I hope it turns out as good as the above paragraph suggests!

If you’ve never been to the JUG before I encourage you to come check it out. It’s very informal and relaxed, it’s a great place to network and plug in to the St. Louis Java community. Plus there’s food and refreshments, and almost always cool swag being given away.

One last thing - I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that my company, Terracotta, has support for clustering both Spring and Guice at the JVM level. (There - now I can expense this blog.)