Gluon Ignite

Gluon Ignite allows developers to use popular dependency injection frameworks in their JavaFX applications, including inside their FXML controllers. Gluon Ignite creates a common abstraction over several popular dependency injection frameworks (currently Guice, Spring, and Dagger, but we plan at add more as the demand becomes obvious). With full support of JSR-330 Gluon Ignite makes using dependency injection in JavaFX applications trivial. Here is a quick example of creating an application using the Guice framework and Gluon Ignite.

public class GuiceApp extends Application implements ExampleApp {

public static void main(String[] args) {

launch(args);

}

private GuiceContext context = new GuiceContext(this, () -> Arrays.asList(new GuiceModule()));

@Inject private FXMLLoader fxmlLoader;

@Override public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws IOException {

context.init();

fxmlLoader.setLocation(getViewLocation());

Parent view = fxmlLoader.load();

primaryStage.setTitle("Guice Example");

primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(view));

primaryStage.show();

}

class GuiceModule extends AbstractModule {

@Override protected void configure() {

bind(Service.class).to(Service.class);

}

By using Gluon Ignite, you not only get dependency injection inside your application class, but also within your FXML controllers too. Even though the sample above shows a Guice context, as mentioned Gluon Ignite also supports other DI frameworks. By using a DaggerContext or SpringContext in your application, it can be easily set up to work with with those frameworks instead.

To use Gluon Ignite in your software, simply include it as a dependency in your preferred dependency manager. Shown below are examples of how to include Gluon Ignite and one specific implementation in your dependency chain:

Gluon Ignite with Dagger

Maven:

<groupId>com.gluonhq</groupId>

<artifactId>ignite-dagger</artifactId>

</dependency>

Gradle:

1	compile 'com.gluonhq:ignite-dagger:1.0.2'

Gluon Ignite with Guice

Maven:

<groupId>com.gluonhq</groupId>

<artifactId>ignite-guice</artifactId>

</dependency>

Gradle:

1	compile 'com.gluonhq:ignite-guice:1.0.2'

Gluon Ignite with Spring

Maven:

<groupId>com.gluonhq</groupId>

<artifactId>ignite-spring</artifactId>

</dependency>

Gradle:

1	compile 'com.gluonhq:ignite-spring:1.0.2'

Note that ignite-common is automatically included as a dependency for each module, so it is not necessary to include this as a dependency.

The source code is available in our open source project repository at https://bitbucket.org/gluon-oss/ignite