[FELIX-3699] Allow annotations to handle custom component definitions.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: ipojo-manipulator-1.10.0
• Component/s: iPOJO
• Assignee: Clement Escoffier
• Reporter: Issac Garcia
• Created: 03/Oct/12 08:34
• Updated: 28/May/13 04:10
• Resolved: 10/Apr/13 12:09

Description

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.

Issue Links

• is related to: FELIX-3749 Refactor the manipulator for better (and extensible) annotation support