[jboss-as7-dev] How would you typically consume an MSC service from a JEE deployment?

[David Bosschaert]

On 28/03/2011 22:59, Stuart Douglas wrote:
> On 29/03/2011, at 8:00 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote
>> On 03/28/2011 12:04 PM, Carlo de Wolf wrote:
>>> On 03/28/2011 03:55 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>>> On 03/28/2011 06:17 AM, David Bosschaert wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Just trying to figure out how an end user would typically consume an MSC
>>>>> service from a JEE deployment such as a Servlet or EJB...
>>>>>
>>>>> How do we expect our customer to consume MSC services? (In my case the
>>>>> MSC service is registered through the OSGi layer...)
>>>>> I guess the ideal way would be through some sort of injection...
>>>> *If* we do this, and I'm not saying we will, the best way would be to
>>>> use the EE injection facilities. In other words, use @Resource or a
>>>> resource-env-ref with maybe some customized mappedName attribute to
>>>> designate the service - or perhaps a completely different annotation or
>>>> descriptor altogether. This would incidentally be compatible with our
>>>> existing EE injection system which uses MSC services anyway for setting
>>>> up dependencies.
>>> It would probably make more sense to let it coming in via @Inject.
>> It's possible, however I am not sure whether we have the capability to
>> perform CDI injection from MSC services.
> It would not be to hard from a technical perspective, if this is what we decide to do.
>
Yes, that would be nice!

And how about the reverse? Are we registering MSC services for EJBs or 
CDI beans already? That would allow them to be consumed from another 
layer that integrates at the MSC level - like an OSGi Bundle...

Cheers,

David