Re: [picocontainer-dev] annotations and comments on Pico2

Its not quite what you think Erik. More later as am billable today....

- Paul

On May 18, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Putrycz, Erik wrote:

>> My position on annotations is somehow mixed - I think they are  
>> usefull
> in certain situations ( like internal wiring of xwork-2 , which is
> basically guice ) but they also introduce unflexibility when you need
> external configuration
>
> Konstantin, not sure what you mean by "unflexibility". And do you mean
> you rather would not have any annotations in the container?
>
> I looked at ComponentCharacteristics but I'm not sure to understand at
> what level it works. There is a single instance (rc) at the container
> level, so does it mean that all component adapters of one container  
> will
> have the same characteristics? If that's the case, I'm not very  
> keen of
> having a state at the container level for managing the properties  
> of all
> components. This whole concept of ComponentCharacteristics introduces
> IMO unnecessary complexity in the code. I think pico needs a way to  
> take
> a list of characteristics and generate a list of component adapters  
> and
> this by container (for default) but also per CA and by many methods
> (annotations or something else).
>
> Also it would be nice (at least I would need that...) if there was a
> "post-process" method in the container and CA that would allow to post
> process stuff on existing instances:
> - process setters on an existing instances;
> - process annotations on existing instances.
>
> Erik Putrycz, Ph.D - Research Associate / erik.putrycz@nrc- 
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