News

Mar 31, 2008

PicoContainer 2.1 released (194K jar)

New (versus 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 (versus beta 2):

  • Binding Annotations support (disambiguation)
  • Newer and rewritten properties backed containers
  • Parameter names can be leveraged for all relevant types of injection

Changed (versus 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 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

Changed (versus 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.

Changed:

  • 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)