On 7/10/07, Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley_at_sun.com> wrote:
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> I propose to add a @Scope annotation as follows:
To clarify my earlier post I don't think we should be inventing an IoC
profile (however limited it is) of our own. I think we'd be better served
allowing this to be an extension point where other, more rigorous, and
well-established IoC profiles can intercede (guice/spring and their ilk).
A root resource class annotated with @Scope(APPLICATION) would be
> required to a have a zero argument constructor and be thread-safe.
This is also an unreasonable restriction in my book. Constructor injection
is a vital programmer idiom and an important facilitator for
safe-publication of member fields (private final) which is a major component
to making things thread-safe.
I agree, however, that singletons ought to be designed with concurrent
access in mind and we should document that as relevant.
Dhanji.