[webbeans-dev] Re: Injection point metadata API

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matt Drees <matt.drees(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:25 PM Subject: Injection point metadata API To: Gavin King <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt;, Java Community Process JSR #299 Expert List <JSR-299-EG(a)jcp.org&gt; I really really liked the feature Gavin talked about here: http://relation.to/Bloggers/InjectionPointMetadataAPIForWebBeans I think there are some very cool possibilities this opens up for framework developers and application utility libraries. IMO, this is a low-cost, high yield feature. Two other thought about this. First, I think it'd be nice to add a method to Manager: public interface Manager { public <T> T getInstance(Bean<T> bean, InjectionPoint injectionPoint); ... } This way if a framework ever has to manually inject objects into a non-WebBean, a @Current InjectionPoint can be made available to the injected object. Second, maybe the InjectionPoint could also be made available to the Context during a lookup? This way custom pseudo-scopes can be much more interesting. I haven't thought about this enough, but it sounds cool. :-) What do you think? -Matt -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin http://hibernate.org http://seamframework.org