[jira] [Comment Edited] (FELIX-3699) Allow annotations to handle custom component definitions.

["Clement Escoffier (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Clement Escoffier edited comment on FELIX-3699 at 10/20/12 8:01 AM:
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@Guillaume : This looks pretty interesting, but it's a big features, probably for the 1.8.6 and not 1.8.4 (which will be released soon)

@Issac: the problem is that the manipulator must not load classes, this is because you don't know in which environment it's executed. So unfortunately, I can't load the annotations. We're working on that in iPOJO 2.0, but until this release, we will have to handle classes as strings. 
                
      was (Author: clement.escoffier):
    @Guillaume : This looks pretty interesting, but it's a big features, probably for the 1.8.6 and not 1.8.4 (which will be relaased soon)

@Issac: the problem is that the manipulator must not load classes, this is because you don't know in which environment it's executed. So unfortunately, I can't load the annotations. We're working on that in iPOJO 2.0, but until this release, we will have to handle classes as strings. 
                  
> Allow annotations to handle custom component definitions.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-3699
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3699
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: iPOJO
>            Reporter: Issac Garcia
>
> Custom components are well handled in iPOJO using the metadata.xml, for example:
> <CustomComponent classname="MyClass" name="myCustomComponent">
>     <requires field="service"/>
> </CustomComponent>
> The custom component definition will, for example, add handlers and so on. It works very well and is nice that iPOJO allows that kind of extensions. 
> But we can't declare a custom component by using annotations, for example doing:
> @CustomComponent
> public class MyClass {...}
> It will be a nice if iPOJO allows to do it using annotations, since the same functionality must be possible with the metadata.mxl and with annotations.

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