Thank you Tim,  I knew the version was probably the issue, but I could not find 
version 6 of org.osgi.compendium  in any of the public Maven repositories.
Do you know of a public Maven repository where I can get the artifact?

Best regards,
Alex soto



> On Aug 23, 2016, at 6:32 PM, Tim Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This is absolutely correct. 
> 
> The "Release 6" version of declarative services supports field injection. The 
> "Release 5" version that you are depending on does not!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tim
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 23 Aug 2016, at 22:43, Alex Soto <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am new SCR, but based on the "The OSGi Alliance OSGi Compendium, Release 6 
>> July 2015"  the Reference annotation can be applied to fields.
>> @Reference
>> 
>> Identify the annotated member as a reference of a Service Component. When 
>> the annotation is applied to a method, the method is the bind method of the 
>> reference. When the annotation is applied to a field, the field will contain 
>> the bound service(s) of the reference. This annotation is not processed at 
>> runtime by Service Component Runtime. It must be processed by tools and used 
>> to add a Component Description to the bundle. In the generated Component 
>> Description for a component, the references must be ordered in ascending 
>> lexicographical order (using String.compareTo ) of the reference names.
>> 
>> The reference element of a Component Description. CLASS
>> METHOD,FIELD 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> However, the actual jar declaring this annotation from Maven import: 
>> 
>>   <groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
>>   <artifactId>org.osgi.compendium</artifactId>
>>   <version>5.0.0</version>
>> Does not support Field, only Method.  So I can’t apply the @Reference 
>> annotation to fields.
>> 
>> What am I missing? 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Alex soto
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

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