Re: [seam-dev] XML Configuration of producer fields

Agreed, this would be very useful. The only (practical) issue I see is that Weld currently doesn't expect AnnotatedTtypes to be respected for EE-style injection (in some/all cases). I suspect that it should (nb. this is large a change in the container integration contract). On 24 Aug 2010, at 09:39, Stuart Douglas wrote: > I think that seam-xml needs to ability to programatically add resource (and other) producer fields. My proposed syntax is: > > <s:EntityManager> > <s:producerField/> > <s:PersistenceContext unitName="customer" /> > <my:CustomerDatasource/> > </s:EntityManager> > > which would be equivalent to: > > @Produces > @PersistenceContext(unitName="main") > @CustomerDatasource > EntityManager entityManager; > > This will also support other types of producer fields, such as weld extension generic bean producer fields and primitives: > > > <s:String> > <s:producerField/> > <my:ApplicationVersion /> > <s:value>3.0.0.GA</s:value> > </s:String> I think it should be: <ee:EntityManager> <ee:Produces /> <ee:PersistenceContext unitName="customer" /> <my:CustomerDatasource/> </ee:EntityManager> What was the reason for introducing the special producerField keyword?