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The guice team is thrilled to announce that Spring has acquired Guice and its developers for an undisclosed amount of money.

The innovation and adoption rate of guice have exceeded all expectations, and in keeping with Spring’s lightweight and non-intrusive idealogy, Guice will be a perfect fit.

What does this mean for you in practice? Going forward, BeanFactory and its associated classes will be deprecated, as of the next major Spring release. Obviously Spring is as committed as ever to backward compatibility, so you won’t need to change a single line of code.

The benefits however of switching to Guice are obvious. The spring team believes that the verbose XML will finally go the way of the dodo, and that annotations are the only realistic way of doing wiring in the future.

Alongside this major shift in approach, Spring will also be dropping its AOP support, in favour of the simple and usable Guice interceptor support. This will enable real world usages of AOP that have not yet been seen in all its years of hype.

Discussing the buyout, Rod Johnson, Spring lead developer and interface21 founder proclaimed ‘It was difficult hiring these guys away from Google, but it’s amazing what a few dollar shots and a hot half-naked bartender setting out a fire by dancing on a bar can do to someone.’

Speaking under conditions of anonymity, fellow Google employees expressed concern at the move. ‘This puts Spring squarely in our sights, and sets up an uncomfortable precedent for home grown technologies being owned by external corporations’ said one insider.

Bob and Kevin, the dynamic duo who developed Guice, are thrilled with the buyout, and have reportedly been seen in and around San Francisco offering drinks to homeless people. ‘It’s a vindication of everything I’ve ever lived for’ gushed an inebriated Bob. ‘I’d like to thank my mom’ concluded Kevin.

There was some scorn though expressed by some regarding this move. Bill Berk, local fat guy at JBoss, was not impressed. ‘We here at JBoss invented AOP, and it’s disgusting seeing others claim the credit for it. I might have not made much money compared to the Fleury clan, I might not have any friends, but I certainly am a fat shit with idiotic opinions’ he chimed in unhelpfully.

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