On 1/4/07, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I like annotation based dependency injection ala EJB3. Unfortunately I've not wrote yet any annotation based container, so I'm not an "expert" in this (I only developed applications based on EJB3 and other annotation based environments)
No I'm no expert yet either, but if this gets support from you guys I guess I'll have to learn quick ;-)
I think this is the best option for a 2007 api. It require java 5, but we know that java 2 1.4 we'll be probably declared unsupported soon and java 6 is already out, so I think this is not a big deal.
I'd agree up to a point, the new API would not be compatible with Java 1.x but James could continue to support the old API version for as long as we want.
I would like to see also other Java 5 improvements for a new API: generics, enums, varargs.
Well I agree that there are nice features, but I'd rather see what the problems are before we choose solutions, and it may turn out that they're more appropriate for container implementors than for the API spec itself. d.
