[webbeans-dev] Rough draft proposal for resource injection

Everyone, please take a look at section 3.6 of this spec draft, which defines a proposal for EE resource injection. Basically, what I've proposed is that web beans would let you rewrite the following: @Resource(mappedName="customerDatabase") Datasource ds; as: @CustomerDatabase Datasource ds; <javaxsql:Datasource> <Resource> <mappedName>customerDatabase</mappedName> </Resource> <myapp:CustomerDatabase/> </javaxsql:Datasource> and: @EJB(ejbLink="somejar#Foo") Foo foo; as: @Current Foo foo; <myapp:Foo> <EJB> <ejbLink>somejar#Foo</ejbLink> </EJB> </myapp:Foo> and: @WebServiceRef(name="barbar", wsdlLocation="barbarbar") Bar bar; as: @Current Bar bar; <myapp:Bar> <WebServiceRef> <name>barbar</name> <wsdlLocation>barbarbar</wsdLocation> </WebServiceRef> </myapp:Bar> So this proposal is just basically an indirection around the pre-existing semantics of Java EE injection, that gives you all the nice Web Beans typesafety. This seems a really nice, easy way to define this stuff, and I love how the XML looks. -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin http://hibernate.org http://seamframework.org