This idea just popped into my head and I'm interested in thoughts.
So I've been racking my brain all throughout the 3.x cycle on a
possible good way to get an injection service of some kind into the
mix. Something that would allow you to annotate a test case for
example and say "inject me". Same would go for a standalone app
client or any object really.
We could of course make a class for this say InjectionManager.class
with a method "public void inject(Object o)" but who wants to bind
themselves directly to org.apache.openejb.* classes -- I wouldn't.
Then suddenly this came to me....
The javax.naming.Context.bind(*) methods are off limits anyway for EJB-
land, they don't do anything... So... what if we started co-opting it
for our own evil purposes :) We could start designating special names
that if you "bind" to them will perform specific operations.
Say for example:
context.bind("<some-standard-prefix>/inject", myObject);
We'd take the myObject, scrape the annotations and inject everything
we could into the myObject instance.
Thoughts?
-David
