Servlet 2.5 injection control

[starksm64]

For the dependency inject stuff, jboss has to have control over this. We need a lifecycle callback that allows for the injection of the references after the servlet has been created, but before its init method is called.

[rmaucher]

Yes, I thought I would add listeners too, but there are lots of places which need injection (it gets really ugly in the JSP layer, as tag instances need injection too), so I used a utility class to inject which does lookups from the local JNDI context (with support for all the annotations that are supposed to be supported right now). I didn't see any reason why this wouldn't work with JBoss.

[starksm64]

What is the jndi name being used? There may be a default value, but I believe this is going to have to be configurable by jboss specific metadata as well.

[rmaucher]

There is a default JNDI name, of course, and can be overridden using the name field in the annotation. There's also a mappedName field in each annotation (I am not using it right now). So you'd like to be able to override all these annotation mappings using a deployment descriptor as well ?

[starksm64]

I believe we need that, and there is also the restoration of the annotation metadata from cached sources such as the virtual filesystem of the deployment to avoid having to parse the class/deployment descriptors again.

[rmaucher]

Then I believe the best will be to (eventually) take the Tomcat code and do a little surgery.