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Wow when I read this comment I did a double take and had to go to Wikipedia… then I realized dependency inversion is not the same thing as inversion of control and things made much more sense.

I guess part of the confusion came from how dependency injection is a form of inversion of control… the words are all very similar to dependency inversion.

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I think your identification of that distinction is entirely too generous. Typically the derision of dependency inversion extends to inversion of control since they are cut from the same cloth. One just focuses on what is being inverted and the other the process of inversion.

I haven't internalised what inversion of control means, but I'm very strong on the distinction between dependency inversion and dependency injection frameworks.

With DI, you stop your business logic from knowing about your Postgres database.

With DInjF, not only does business logic still know about Postres, but now it knows about Spring too! (The upside is that it takes fewer lines of code to get from 0 to spaghetti)

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