Heads-up - GBeanInfo via annotations

[Gianny Damour]

Hi,

I am working on the declaration of GBeanInfo via annotations.
This is an example GBean with all the possible annotations (note that  
some annotation properties have default values so you do not see all  
of them in the example):

@GBean(j2eeType="type", name="name")
@GPriority(priority=123)
public class MockGBean implements Runnable {

    public MockGBean(@GParamAttribute(name = "name") String name,
        @GParamReference(name = "Name") Runnable runnable) {
    }

    public void run() {
    }

    @GAttribute
    public String getGetterAttribute() {
        return null;
    }

    @GAttribute
    public void setSetterAttribute(String value) {
    }

    @GReference
    public void setSetterReference(Runnable value) {
    }

}

Above annotations are in the package  
org.apache.geronimo.gbean.annotations.

At the same time, I will add support for pluggable strategies to get  
the GBeanInfo of a class. We will have two strategies: use  
getGBeanInfo method, current approach; or introspect annotations, the  
one I am working on. It will be possible to add additional  
strategies, e.g. read a service descriptor file a la OpenEJB.


I will also replace the GBean instantiation code of GBeanInstance by  
an ObjectRecipe (xbean-reflect class).


Let me know if you have any concerns about the above plan.

Thanks,
Gianny