Managing Dependencies with the Service Locator Pattern

This chapter will be brief because the Service Locator pattern we will review is simple and efficient. The core idea of this pattern is straightforward: it revolves around having a central registry of initialized dependencies. But to be more precise, these dependencies are components that offer specific services that we can expose with interfaces we call "service contracts". Hence, when a client needs to call upon a particular service, it doesn't need to know how to localize and initialize it; it just needs to ask the Service Locator pattern, and this will do all the legwork to fulfill the service contract.

As we will see in this chapter, it's quite a simple design and is easy to implement. ...

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