How to avoid having injector.createInstance() all over the place when using guice?

Question

There\'s something I just don\'t get about guice: According to what I\'ve read so far, I\'m supposed to use the Injector only in my bootstrapping class (in a standalone appl

Answer 1

To extend on the answer Gamlor posted, you need to also differentiate between the object types you are using.

For services, injection is the correct solution, however, don't try to always make data objects (which are generally the leafs in your object graph) injectable. There may be situations where that is the correct solution, but injecting a Provider is probably not a good idea. A colleague of mine ended up do that, it made the code base very confusing after a while. We just finished cleaning it all out and the Guice modules are much more specific now.