NAME

       Bread::Board::Manual - A manual for Bread::Board

VERSION

       version 0.32

INTRODUCTION

       As we have said, Bread::Board is an inversion of control framework with a focus on dependency injection
       and lifecycle management. The goal that Bread::Board strives towards is to promote more decoupled
       designs. It does this by removing the need for your objects to be concerned with resolving and/or
       creating their dependencies as well as knowing (or caring) what their lifecycle is.

   Why should I use Bread::Board
       First, it should be noted that Bread::Board and IoC are not universally useful. Smaller applications and
       one-off scripts would be overburdened by the abstractions of Bread::Board. But the larger your
       application becomes, the more something like Bread::Board can help.

       As applications grow so the management of resources and their dependencies becomes more of a burden.
       Making sure all your components are properly initialized, in the right order and at all times that you
       need them, can become a twisty maze. Bread::Board is intended to help you manage this twisty maze and
       remove the need for you to manage this manually.

       Take your typical Catalyst application, the Catalyst framework itself contains its own mini IoC framework
       through the component subsystem. Catalyst will manage your models and views making sure that they will be
       available when you need them in the controllers. Catalyst makes all this easy to manage through its
       configuration system. This is great inside your Catalyst application, but what about outside of it? Any
       sufficiently complex web application will have a set of scripts and/or command-line applications to help
       support it. At this point you are left to your own devices and must manage these components and their
       dependency chains on your own.

       By decoupling IoC into its own stand-alone subsystem it becomes possible to get that same ease-of-use you
       get inside something like a Catalyst application, outside of it.

       This, in a nutshell, is what Bread::Board aims to provide.

SECTIONS

       Bread::Board::Manual::Concepts
           This is perhaps the best place to start, it will introduce you to the basic concepts that make up
           Bread::Board.

       Bread::Board::Manual::Concepts::Typemap
           With Bread::Board you provide names for your service so that you can find them later. This document
           explores the new (read: experimental) typemap feature which allows you to map services to types as
           well.

       Bread::Board::Manual::Concepts::Advanced
           Bread::Board is an extensible and open system, this document will explore how you can extend
           Bread::Board and get greater re-use of your components.

       Bread::Board::Manual::Example
           This is a set of examples meant to show how Bread::Board can be used in real-world scenarios. It is
           recommended that you read the above documentation first as many of these examples use the concepts
           discussed in them.

AUTHOR

       Stevan Little <stevan@iinteractive.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Infinity Interactive.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.