"alesj" wrote : | I'm about to write bean class inspection for property @Inject - which will take place in DescribeAction - and will add PropertyMetaData to existing BeanMetaData (as discused). | | Should I wait for 'I do intend in future to define a proper contract'? | No since I've got no idea what that contract is, except that it is a generalization of all the inject/depends/demands such that a specific dependency type can be "plugged in" without having to modify the kernel. e.g. pseudo idea | <register dependency="JNDI"> | <.../> <!-- description of dependency mechanism> | </register> | | <inject bean="Blah" type="JNDI"/> | anonymous wrote : | How to make this more general - handling all kinds of annotations, different injections (not just property, also constructor, collections, ...)? Again, I haven't given any thought to it. You can certainly use parameter annotations to describe parameter injections. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3965219#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...