Actually I do think that we should continue to work on JDK 6. I'll look
into that.
On 6/4/2014 10:20 PM, buko wrote:
> This is really neat John. Good work. Some questions:
>
> (1) Why do we need two separate methods, addActiveFactoryDescriptor
> and addActiveDescriptor? Couldn't addActiveDescriptor simply check if
> its parameter is a Factory and delegate?
> (2) This beta doesn't work on Java6. Seems to be referring to some
> missing internal method of ConcurrentHashMap? Any hope of fixing this
> or is Java6 being abandoned?
>
>
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> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:27 PM, John Wells <john.wells_at_oracle.com
> <mailto:john.wells_at_oracle.com>> wrote:
>
> I forgot one other improvement is that we now have better support
> for automatically analyzing Factory classes. If you use the
> popular ServiceLocatorUtilities.addClasses method, it will now
> take a Factory class and generate both the factory service as well
> as the provider method service. There is also a new method called
> addActiveFactoryDescriptor on the DynamicConfiguration class that
> does the same analysis.
>
>
> On 6/4/2014 10:17 AM, John Wells wrote:
>
> We are doing an HK2 promotion today that will include a few
> new features:
>
> 1. Added an annotation that marks another annotation as being
> an injection point indicator. It is called
> @InjectionPointIndicator. This is useful if you have a
> situation where you are adding an injection resolver in the
> same transaction as those whose might have those injection points.
> 2. Added the ability to use interception and eventing
> together (or is this a bug fix?)
> 3. Added in support for using mockito with hk2 (thanks saden)
> 4. All proxies for the AOP interception feature will now
> implement the AOPProxyCtl interface
>
> There is also the start of a new feature called
> hk2-configuration which is not finished yet, but we are
> promoting in order to get some early feedback on it from
> internal customers. It allows configuration values to be
> injected into hk2 services based on some external
> configuration format (such as XML or Properties files). There
> will be more on this new feature in upcoming promotions.
>
> Give the new stuff a try and tell us your thoughs!
>
> John Wells
> john.wells_at_oracle.comNOSPAM
>
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