Hi, I've published a page to the wiki about a concept I've been working on to consolidate the various appproaches I have seen in the wild to model object creation. I'm calling this YAMF for now, although ideally we'll just call it Sling Models :)
Without repeating the whole contents of the wiki page, at a high level, this is a purely annotation driven approach supporting both classes and interfaces. Your model class simply needs to declare from which other classes it can be adapted: @Model(adaptables=Resource.class) And then annotate the fields (for classes) and methods (for interfaces) which need injection: @Inject private String propertyName; You can inject properties, OSGi services, request attributes, and entries from SlingBindings. New injector types can be created through an SPI. Additional annotations are supported for special cases: @Optional - mark a field/method as optional. @Filter - provide a filter (i.e. for OSGi services) @Named - specify a name (other than the default field/method name) to use for the inejction lookup. More detail can be found here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SLING/YAMF+-+Yet+Another+Model+Factory The working code is up in my whiteboard: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/whiteboard/justin/yamf/ Look forward to your feedback. Regards, Justin
