[jboss-dev] Common injection facilities in AS6

I've run smack into a serious problem in AS6. JAX-RS has injection annotations and I need to: 1) Inject into a JAX-RS managed POJO 2) Inject into an EJB instance 3) Inject into CDI bean instance 4) Inject into a Managed Bean instance 5) I'd also like to support Java EE annotation injection (like @EJB and @Resource) into a JAX-RS managed POJO While the VDF does allow me to find out if which of these components are deployed within a WAR so that I easily find out which classes have JAX-RS annotations, I have to have different integration with each layer for injections. I am not alone. EJB has EJB specific injection annotations. Java EE has common injection annotations, JAX-WS has annotations as well. Servlet? There's also a multitude of component layers that need to support these annotations: Managed Beans, EJB instances, servlets, filters, listeners, JMX Beans, JAX-WS pojos, more? It would be cool if we had some common facility in which I could do: Object obj = InjectionFacility.createAndInject(Class<?> someClass) InjectionFacility.inject(someArbitraryInstance) InjectionFacility.registerInjector(someJAXRSAnnnotationInjector) CDI manages a lot (all?) of this. Unfortunately, I've been told that I cannot leverage CDI unless it has been enabled for the deployment. Also, I've been told that CDI needs to do a lot of scanning and metadata building and it would be counter-productive to do this for each deployment. So.... 1) Can we find a way to use CDI as our injection facility? Maybe turning off CDI scanning, but enabling its plugin and callback APIs and SPIs? or 2) Can we develop a common facility that all component layers can use *INCLUDING* CDI so we don't have to re-invent injection for each and every framework? I sincerely hope I don't have to escalate this problem to higher levels. I would much rather have this be a bottom-up lead effort instead of a top-down enforced directive. Bill -- Bill Burke JBoss, a division of Red Hat http://bill.burkecentral.com