The "byType" autowiring is more or less what I was talking about, but requires the wiring to become explicit as soon as more than one implementation exist in the system, which actually makes it less useful.
I see what you mean. I think there are concepts in Spring (and other containers) that should be incorporated in the design of Cocoon 3, even if their actual implementation is different. OTOH, it will probably take *years* for that design to solidify and who knows how Spring will change in that timeframe. If we can give them some inputs, maybe we can help shape it to better fit our needs.
They have an impressive doc!
There's also a book coming out soon [1].
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[1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764558315/beblogging-20?ref=nosim
