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 >> >> >> >>
