The current org.jboss.managed.plugins.factory.AbstractManagedObjectFactory has too much going on to be reusable. In particular, the InstanceClassFactory(Serializable), ManagedObjectPopulator(Serializable) parameterized interfaces cannot be changed by subclasses, for example, this cannot be done:
public class LocalDSInstanceClassFactory extends AbstractManagedObjectFactory
implements InstanceClassFactory<LocalDataSourceDeploymentMetaData>
{
...
}
...
ManagedObjectFactory mof = ManagedObjectFactory.getInstance();
LocalDSInstanceClassFactory icf = new LocalDSInstanceClassFactory();
mof.setInstanceClassFactory(LocalDataSourceDeploymentMetaData.class, icf);
Either the AbstractManagedObjectFactory needs to keep the interface paramterization, or the default implementations need to be plugins with different base classes. I'm working on the latter local to the jbossas/connector project to validate what works.
