DI Containers Comparision

Comparing a simple app varieties on different DI containers.

IntelliJ IDEA Setup

Go to “Preferences > Annotation Processors”, and check “Enable Annotation
Processing”.

“Benchmark”

# Build (can't compare build times, as module ordering affects the results)
mvn clean package

File sizes

find . -name '*.jar' |xargs ls -l |grep -v original |grep -v common

Execution time

time java -jar ./bootique/target/bootique-*.jar
time java -jar ./cayennedi/target/cayennedi-*.jar
time java -jar ./dagger/target/dagger-*.jar
time java -jar ./guice/target/guice-*.jar
time java -jar ./owb/target/owb-*.jar
time java -jar ./spring/target/spring-*.jar
time java -jar ./springboot/target/springboot-*.jar

Results (Java 21)

MacBook Pro 2021 M1, 16GB RAM, OpenJDK Temurin-21+35

DI	Jar w/Deps Size, KB	Exec time, ms
Dagger	58	90
Cayenne DI	71	105
Bootique	2894	157
Guice	3827	204
OpenWebBeans	1632	? (failures)
Spring	4800	221
Spring Boot	10094	743