GIN Bindings

GIN Bindings

GWTP uses dependency injection as a foundation of its architecture. It allows to have a maintainable application and loosely coupled components.

GIN is the library used for dependency injection in GWT.

References

Google GIN

Binding MVP

GWTP needs a boostrapping process to link a Presenter class to its View and View implementation classes. The way of doing this is by creating a GIN module and put the bindings in there.

Here's an example of a basic module:

public class ApplicationModule extends AbstractPresenterModule {
    @Override
    protected void configure() {
        install(new HomeModule());
        install(new WidgetModule());

        bindPresenter(ApplicationPresenter.class, ApplicationPresenter.MyView.class, ApplicationView.class,
                      ApplicationPresenter.MyProxy.class);
    }
}

Things to notice in this example:

1. A GWTP module should extend AbstractPresenterModule to inherit convenience methods for binding a different Presenter types. (See the Javadoc for more information.)
2. A module can install other modules

3. A module needs to be installed (by another installed module) to have its code executed. (See GIN module registration)