In the next few articles of the “Plexus to Guice” series I will look at the modular design of our replacement Plexus container and show how you can configure a POB (Plain Old Bean) from Guice with a simple code example. In the first article of this series, Jason discussed the need to move to a more widely used and support container, and the reasons why we chose to standardize on Guice. As we migrate more Plexus-based applications (such as Maven) to Guice, we still to maintain backward-compatibility for all of the plugins and extensions which were developed using Plexus. In this post, I start to discuss the scope and initial efforts to create something we’re calling the Guice/Plexus “shim”. It is a library, a “container” that was developed to allow existing Plexus components to use Guice under the hood without any modification. Continue reading →