Dependency injection and aggregation/association

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Published on 2010-03-13T14:59:13Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 15:05 UTC
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In both association and aggregation, one class maintains a reference to another class.

Then, does constructor injection imply composition? Going by the same logic, is it safe to say that setter injection leads to an association, and not an aggregation?

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