OpenEdge InjectABL Inversion of Control container/Dependency Injection module

InjectABL is an Inversion of Control container/Dependency Injection module that was created as part of the AutoEdge|TheFactory reference implementation. This project breaks separates the InjectABL module from the larger AutoEdge code, and makes it available for independent use.

The InjectABL IoC component is inspired by, and largely based - conceptually and to a lesser degree code - on the Ninject DI container. While many DI/IoC products provide mapping facilities, the majority of them are XML based; Ninject starts with source code-based mappings, which can be extended to use XML. This provides more readability; in addition Ninject has usable defaults, and is relatively simple to use and understand. It is also itself easily extensible.

The wiki contains more details.

Installation/setup

This project assumes that it will run against OpenEdge version 11.7.0+.

The project follows a pretty standard Maven layout.

Folder	Contents
src/main/abl	Contains the library's sourceABL source code
src/main/resources	Contains non-source-code resources used to compile and/or build
src/test/abl	Contains unit tests. The project uses ABLUnit for unit testing
src/test/resources	Contains non-source-code resources used to build and run unit tests
build/**	Created by the Gradle build; should be considered transient (ie liable to be deleted)
build/dist	Contains the source ZIP and rcode PL files created by the build. These are named `injectabl--[sources
build/rcode	Contains the project's compiled rcode (from src/main/abl).
build/lib/**	Contains any source code dependencies
build/tests	Contains ABLUnit test results in results.xml

It is built using Gradle. To run the build, run gradlew from the project's root directory. The location of an OpenEdge install must be known; this is specified either by using a DLC environment variable, or specifying a path in the gradle.properties file.

Running/development

To develop in an IDE, make sure that src/main/abl is added to PROPATH To run, either add the rcode PL to PROPATH, or add the rcode fodler (build/rcode), or to run from source code, add /src/main/abl.