Thank you for the insights. - Ray
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:03 PM, BJ Hargrave <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Raymond Auge <[email protected]> > > Yup, and so this goes back around: > > > > "Wouldn't it be nice if we could track|filter services by runtime > > type annotations?" > > There is no way the framework is going to look at every service object to > see if it is annotated with some annotation. Furthermore, with > ServiceFactory, the framework does not even have a service object to > inspect until some bundle requests the service object. > > > > > There are plenty of cases where you want to massively classify by > > annotations rather than by type, hence the world of annotation > > scanners: Spring, CDI, JPA, etc. > > Right. But the OSGi framework is not going to scan bundles for annotations > especially since it has no idea what annotations are even interesting to > you. > > -- > > *BJ Hargrave* > Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM > OSGi Fellow and CTO of the *OSGi Alliance* <http://www.osgi.org/>* > **[email protected]* <[email protected]> > > office: +1 386 848 1781 > mobile: +1 386 848 3788 > > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > [email protected] > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > -- *Raymond Augé* <http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/profile> (@rotty3000) Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com> (@Liferay)
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