JavaPosse Episode 160

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Interview with Bob Lee about Guice
(Guice is an IoC framework.)

00:30 Intro
00:47 What is Guice?
03:56 What was the reason to start a new framework?
10:23 Have you seen people use it for really small things?
12:51 What's coming up?
22:50 Some things about Google Collections API
23:55 Differences between weak and soft references
26:15 Interesting combinations of strong and weak references in practice
28:18 What are the other things that you think are coming in the future for Google Collections?
30:30 Anything else, goodbye, outro...

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