Introduction

NanoContainer is collection of bespoke containers that deliver extra value to PicoContainer.

StringRegistrationNanoContainer

This container takes strings (class names) instead of class definitions as PicoContainer does. This basically means that components can be soft configured one by one.

Implementations -

StringRegistrationNanoContainerImpl - takes a parent container
StringRegistrationNanoContainerImpl.Default - no args

    StringRegistrationNanoContainer nc = new StringRegistrationNanoContainerImpl.Default();

    nc.registerComponent("org.org.nanocontainer.testmodel.DefaultWebServerConfig");

    nc.registerComponent("org.org.nanocontainer.testmodel.WebServer", "org.org.nanocontainer.testmodel.WebServerImpl");

    nc.start();

InputSourceRegistrationNanoContainer

This container takes a single InputSource (from the SAX API) . This basically means that components can be soft configured in a single document. The single implementation takes a DOM document. That document mabe inlined or external to the class that uses the container. External could be on file system, in jar, on URL, in fact anything.

Implementations -

DomRegistrationNanoContainer - document builder (DOM) and parent container
DomRegistrationNanoContainer.Default - no args
DomRegistrationNanoContainer.WithParentContainer - parent container
DomRegistrationNanoContainer.WithDocumentBuilder - document builder

    InputSourceRegistrationNanoContainer nc = new DomRegistrationNanoContainer.Default();

    nc.registerComponents(new InputSource(new StringReader(

        "<components>" +

        "      <component class=\"org.org.nanocontainer.testmodel.DefaultWebServerConfig\"/>" +

        "      <component type=\"org.org.nanocontainer.testmodel.WebServer\" class=\"org.org.nanocontainer.testmodel.WebServerImpl\"/>" +

        "</components>")));

    nc.start();

AggregatingNanoContainer

This container takes many components and aggregates them together to become a single component that offers all of the methods that each would individually offer.

Implementations -

AggregatingNanoContainer - object array of components, invocation handler
AggregatingNanoContainer.ComponentsFromContainer - container ro aggregate components for, invocation handler
AggregatingNanoContainer.Default - container ro aggregate components for

    PicoContainer pc = // some Picocontainer with components in it.

    AggregatedContainersContainer acc = new AggregatedContainersContainer(pc,getComponents());

NanningComponentFactory The nanning component factory basically adds aspect orientated programming (AOP) capability to arbitary components with a normal PicoContainer.