[TAP5-231] Unify injection; allow @Inject annotation on fields of service implementations

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.15
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.16
• Component/s: tapestry-ioc
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Howard Lewis Ship
• Created: 25/Sep/08 06:44
• Updated: 26/Sep/08 08:23
• Resolved: 26/Sep/08 08:23

Description

This has come up again and again, especially in recent training. Although I'm very strongly in favor of constructor injection (and the use of final fields to store dependencies), being allowed to inject into a field, even if it requires the use of reflection, would be a real boon.