Symfony 2 DIC Supports Abstract Parent Services

Even after two years, Symfony continues in giving me „Wow“ and „Aha“ moments. Typically these happen, when I discover things just make perfect sense :-) The Dependency Injection Container included with Symfony 2, also known as the Symfony Service Container, is probably the one component of Symfony that gave me the most magic moments.

• Did you ever create a number of similar services?
• Did the classes extend a common baseclass?
• Did they have a lot of parts of the service configuration in common?

I you answered „yes“ to both questions above, you want to learn about Abstract Parent Services.