Factory pattern advice needed

[TomB]

@wadebiffen

Would a DIC hold factories or only regular objects? If the latter, is a DIC really only useful for singelton objects?

Would a DIC hold the identity map object (for example for user objects) or act as an identity map? I would bet money on the first one. Just have to make sure

The DIC would have the responsibility of holding the identity map for existing objects and creation of objects where needed. However, in a lot of cases, factories will likely be singletons anyway.

Yes, this creates a cyclic reference too. The factories have a reference to the DIC and the DIC has a reference to the factories. However, I believe the benefits outweigh the drawbacks here.