BeanFactory and IoC annotations support

[alesj]

Currently we don't do anything with MC IoC annotations on beans that are created by bean factory (e.g. GenericBeanFactory).

Handling them in createBean method is too late, since we loose the notion of dependencies, e.g. @Inject(bean="somebean") at that moment we can only do lookup and fail if 'somebean' is not installed, loosing what MC's state machine is all about.

We could move annotations lookup in create() and set the dependencies whenRequired state to INSTALLED.
But this will again only work if bean attribute is explicitly defined.
In the case when bean is created through ConstructorMetaData.factory, there is nothing we can do to avoid problems previously mentioned - no true dependencies.

Which road to take?

[adrian.brock]

Related classes (see the JIRA issue)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMICROCONT-22.

i.e. When I deploy my factory or some other container,
I also want the dependencies on a given class resolved before the factory is deployed.

<bean name="MainClass" class="com.acme.Main">
 <related>com.acme.Related</related>
</bean>

This was initially raised for AOP where we need to know that com.acme.Main
instantiates a com.acme.Related programmatically and that Related has aspects
whose dependencies need to be satisifed before we deploy/invoke on Main.

[adrian.brock]

For the simple BeanFactory case (i.e. no factory injection in its constructor),
we can add the "bean class" as a related class automatically to the
GenericBeanFactoryMetaData

[adrian.brock]

This was initially raised for AOP where we need to know that com.acme.Main
instantiates a com.acme.Related programmatically and that Related has aspects
whose dependencies need to be satisifed before we deploy/invoke on Main.

So its not just annotation defined depdencies, we also need to ask
aop to give its dependencies for that class.

[alesj]

For the simple BeanFactory case (i.e. no factory injection in its constructor),
we can add the "bean class" as a related class automatically to the
GenericBeanFactoryMetaData

OK, this needs to be done. :-)
Since if Scott wants to use our beanfactory as a way to create/pool beans, this is a must to have.
e.g. applying @EJB on enterprise beans

I can have a hack at that, unless Kabir wants to resolve this task personally. ;-)
But I would need some instructions, since it's out of the scope of my simple IoC annotations handling.

[alesj]

i.e. When I deploy my factory or some other container,
I also want the dependencies on a given class resolved before the factory is deployed.

<bean name="MainClass" class="com.acme.Main">
 <related>com.acme.Related</related>
</bean>

This was initially raised for AOP where we need to know that com.acme.Main
instantiates a com.acme.Related programmatically and that Related has aspects
whose dependencies need to be satisfied before we deploy/invoke on Main.

Should I then add a Set<String> related to BeanMetaData?

How to generically handle this related?
e.g. beanfactory's related bean should be scanned for MC's IoC annotations, but when there is related item for non-beanfactory we shouldn't scan for IoC, it should only be used for AOP dependencies