Getting Started with Component Architecture: DI?

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Published on 2012-10-01T10:23:39Z Indexed on 2012/10/01 15:54 UTC
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I just moved away from MVC towards something more component-architecture-like. I have no concept of messages yet (it's rough prototype code), objects just get internal properties and values of other classes for now.

That issue aside, it seems like this is turning into an aspect-oriented-programming challenge. I've noticed that all entities with, for example, a position component will have similar properties (get/set X/Y/Z, rotation, velocity).

Is it a common practice, and/or good idea, to push these behind an interface and use dependency injection to inject a generic class (eg. PositionComponent) which already has all the boiler-plate code?

(I'm sure the answer will affect the model I use for message/passing)

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