Ben, Check out the Pax project at OPS4J.
http://www.ops4j.org Cheers, David > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben Fortuna > Sent: 6 June 2006 22:56 > To: wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Wicket-user] Dependency Injection vs Service Locator > > > Hi all, > > I've been investigating the possibilities of integrating Wicket and > OSGi with favourable results. However, one major hurdle, which I think > a couple of others have also pointed out here, is that there is as yet > no solution providing "true" dependency injection for Wicket. > > I've looked at the wicket-spring examples, and to me this seems to be > using the Service Locator pattern rather than Dependency Injection. > That is fine as a solution, but consider the following example: I want > to be able to register my Wicket pages as services (concept should be > similar regardless of IoC container) and have other > services/components that are (optionally!) able to "inject" additional > components into these pages. > > With my basic knowledge of Wicket, this example would seem impossible > as there must be a "placeholder" in the page's HTML that will > correspond to each of the components in the page's component tree. So > ultimately it seems the page component count cannot be altered at > runtime. > > Is there something I am missing here? I'm hoping there is some way to > be able to alter the component count at runtime, or perhaps even > specify "optional" components in the page HTML that may or may not be > present in the component tree (still not real dependency injection, > but a compromise I'd be willing to make). > > TIA. > > regards, > ben > > -- > http://blogs.modularity.net.au/thenextbigthing > > > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
