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Sep 14, 2025 Java Rust dependency

Comparing transitive dependency version resolution in Rust and Java

You learn by comparing to what you already know. I was recently bitten by assuming Rust worked as Java regarding transitive dependency version resolution. In this post, I want to compare the two. Dependencies, transitivity, and version resolution Before diving into the specifics of each stack, let’s describe the domain and the problems that come with it. When developing any project above Hello World level, chances are you’ll face problems that others have faced before. If the pr

Jan 12, 2014 dependency guava

Guava is an heavyweight library and I would like this to change

Google Guava is an useful library that offers many different but unrelated features: For my Vaadin projects, I like using Event Bus to promote loose coupling along my componentsGuava offers Functional oriented collections handlingThere’s a lightweight Cache implementationetc. However, this article is not about those features but about offering a single heavyweight Uber JAR for all. From Google’s point-of-view, providing an Uber library for all projects makes sense: 'Hey guys, just a

Mar 20, 2009 decoupling dependency dependency injection di META-INF osgi service locator serviceloader services

Simplest Java decoupling without 3rd party frameworks

[…] coupling (or dependency) is the degree to which each program module relies on each one of the other modules. — Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(computer_science) In object-oriented programming, removing dependencies is done by using interface. Thus, if class A is dependent on class B, we introduce interface C, which is implemented by B. Now A depends on C (see below). This first step in decoupling is called programming by interface. Anyway, we sti