Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'm continuing on this topic since I really believe we need > annotations now. However I think it's best to have our own annotations > for injection. > > One reason we need annotation (amongst other needs) is in order to be > able to create a xwiki uberjar for rendering modules for example. With > components.xml you cannot easily merge jars since you'd need to merge > components.xml so you'd need to write some xslt code for that. > > Another reason is that we have to comment in the code things such as > "this field is injected automatically by the component manager". Of > course this comment is forgotten most of the time. It's much nicer to > have a @Inject annotation. > > Last we need annotations if we want to be able to more easily support > different IOC frameworks since otherwise it means that for each fwk we > need to do again all components mappings in a static way.
If we have our own annotations, doesn't that require each IOC/DI framework support them ? +1 to switch to annotations, be they our owns or from another framework. Jerome. > > Of course one basic need is evidently to reduce the number of config > lines we have to write and the errors associated with them. > > I'm going to look into plexus annotations for a starter (+ guice) to > see how they do it and then I'll make a proposal for annotations. > > Let me know what you think. > > Thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
