Fluent Style

PicoContainer allows for a very fluent style of use. Refer to Martin’s ‘Fluent Interface’ article.

A simple example :

pico = new DefaultPicoContainer();
pico.addComponent(Apple.class)
    .addComponent(Orange.class)
    .addComponent(Pear.class) 
    .addComponent(Banana.class) 
    .addComponent(Grape.class, Grenache.class);

One with per component properties:

pico = new DefaultPicoContainer();
pico.addComponent(Apple.class)
    .as(CACHE).addComponent(Orange.class) 
    .as(CACHE, HIDE_IMPLEMENTATION).addComponent(Pear.class) 
    .as(SYNCHRONIZE, CACHE).addComponent(Banana.class) 
    .addComponent(Grape.class, Grenache.class);

One with properties that are persistently set, half way through.

pico = new DefaultPicoContainer();
pico.addComponent("Coxs", CoxsApple.class) 
    .addComponent("Golden", GoldenDeliciousApple.class) 
    .addComponent(new ValenciaOrange()) 
    .change(SYNCHRONIZE, CACHE, HIDE_IMPLEMENTATION) 
    .addComponent(Pear.class) 
    .addComponent(Banana.class) 
    .addComponent(Grape.class, Grenache.class);