In software engineering, inversion of control (IoC) is a programming principle. IoC inverts the flow control as compared to traditional control flow. In IoC, custom-written portions of a computer program receive the flow of control from a generic framework. A software architecture with this design inverts control as compared to traditional procedural programming: in traditional programming, the custom code that expresses the purpose of the program calls into reusable libraries to take care of generic tasks, but with inversion of control, it is the framework that calls into the custom, or task-specific, code.
Inversion of control is used to increase modularity of the program and make it extensible
- IoC inverts the flow control as compared to traditional control flow.
- Instead of having a main system call into different sub classes, sub class call into the main class.
- Related to Dependency Injection (ex. MVC).
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