Hi,
I see quite some Maven extensions that rely on configuration.
There's no convention for this, so they all pick their own format and
location.
Looking at the build-cache it seems there's again configuration
required.
I think with Maven 4 we should make it possible to add a
configuration-block to an extension, similar to plugins.
The difficult part is how to make Components (@Named/@Inject) get access
to this configuration.
I don't think we can pass if with some method of an API.
For that reason probably the Configuration itself should be a Component
too and Maven (with Sisu) is responsible for mapping and injecting it.
Important benefit is that we'll have type-safe configuration.
I hope others like this idea as well.
Is it worth investigating or do we already see blockers?
In case of enough positive responses I'll prepare a wiki page for the
details.
thanks,
Robert
