[seam-dev] XML Configuration of producer fields

[Pete Muir]

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?