Field injection for Aries blueprint

[Valentin Mahrwald]

Hi,

what do people think about supporting field injection in Aries  
blueprint?

It's not in the OSGi blueprint spec, but a lot of other JEE specs  
support field injection (Servlet, EJB3, JPA ...), so developers might  
assume the convenience of not having to write pointless getters and  
setters.

An Aries specific extension to blueprint could then allow field  
injection per bean or per blueprint module controlled via a custom  
namespace attribute. At runtime this would allow the Blueprint  
container to inject a property directly into a field (regardless of  
visibility). However, this alternative approach would only be used if  
a setter is not available (so setters would always take precedence).

If there no violent objections, Ozzy and I will look into implementing  
this ;)

Regards,

Valentin