@PostConstruct method called before injection occurred

[tom]

Hi,

I am using apache-tomee-1.0.0-plus(clean, no additional jars) and while
playing around with some dependency injection I stumbled upon a strange
behavior:

The method annotated with @PostConstruct gets called before the variables
are injected. According to the @PostConstruct JavaDoc it should be the other
way around.

So the Dependency Injection and the PostConstruct work, but I can't think of
a way to change the order.

At this moment I don't have a way to upload my war file, so I´ll just list
what my project contains so far:

It is a maven-archetype-webapp project

The web.xml looks like this:

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd";
        metadata-complete="false" version="2.5">

        <display-name>OpenEJB REST Example</display-name>

        <filter>
                <filter-name>TestFilter</filter-name>
                <filter-class>a.b.c.TestFilter</filter-class>
                <init-param>
                        <param-name>testfilter</param-name>
                        <param-value>testfilter</param-value>
                </init-param>
        </filter>

        <filter-mapping>
                <filter-name>TestFilter</filter-name>
                <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
        </filter-mapping>

</web-app>

Whereas the filter actually does nothing.

The class containing @PostConstruct:

package a.b.c;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;

@Path("hello")
public class Hello {

    @Inject
    private Greeting mGreeting;
    
    @PostConstruct
    public void init(){
        String tmp = "test";
    }
    
    @GET
    public String hello(){
        if(mGreeting == null){
            return "Well, it still doesn't work...";
        }else{
            return mGreeting.greet();
        }
    }
}

The String tmp = "test" is just there so I can set a breakpoint.


And the injected Greeting class:

package a.b.c;

public class Greeting {
    
    public String greet(){
        return "Greetings";
    }
}

So maybe I am doing something completely wrong here. ^^

Thanks in advance :)

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