Re: Generic way to handle annotations for integrating projects

2007-03-07 Thread Paul McMahan
Due to my own limited knowledge of xbean and the nuances of deployment I can't claim to totally understand all the benefits of allowing the application server to handle instantiation for objects annotated for dependency injection. I have a hunch that the main benefit is that it allows the contai

Re: Generic way to handle annotations for integrating projects

2007-03-07 Thread David Jencks
On Mar 7, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Lasantha Ranaweera wrote: David, May be a silly question. How about handling JPA related annotations? I can think of 2 kinds of jpa related annotations. There are PersistenceManagerRef and PersistenceUnitRef which are injection related and that we already ha

Re: Generic way to handle annotations for integrating projects

2007-03-06 Thread Lasantha Ranaweera
David, May be a silly question. How about handling JPA related annotations? Thanks, Lasantha David Jencks wrote: I've been working on annotation handling for jetty using xbean-reflect and have come up with a design for general annotation processing that I would like to propose we urge our int

Generic way to handle annotations for integrating projects

2007-03-06 Thread David Jencks
I've been working on annotation handling for jetty using xbean- reflect and have come up with a design for general annotation processing that I would like to propose we urge our integrated projects to allow or adopt. This is appropriate when the injection only involves stuff looked up in j