Steve,
In the CDI space, there is also the Spring Framework. I understand that Hivemind and even Merlin support CDI components.I am slowly working on changes to Cornerstone. These changes may allow JAMES components to be independent of IoC container. Or more accurately will grant "Contextualized Lookup" (Avalon) components an alternate capability in a "Constructor Dependency Injection" world. In no part of the patches I'll submit to this project, will I take away Avalon capability (whn I get back to it).
The approach you describe would certainly free the current codebase of its purely Avalon dependency.
An alternative for v3 would be to switch the core container architecture to Constructor Dependency Injection. Then depolyers have the choice of lightweight deployment via something such as Pico/Nano or something more heavyweight.
A direction for the committers to decide. In lieu of that, all directions components compatible with CDI and Contextualized Lookup (via Avalon) would be best (but not easiest).
- Paul
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