MC facade / fancy handles

[alesj]

As we're approaching 2.0.0.CR1 (GA), more and more project are gonna use us. :-)

We've been able to hide some of the complexity / details with BeanMetaDataBuilder (and probably some other handy code as well).
But I still see a lot of questions as 'what is the best way to pull out a bean from MC programmatically'.
Although most of the dev / user use cases could be squeezed into a couple of classes in each project that uses MC, I still suggest we do some common sort of a fancy facade ala Spring BeanFactory, or any other user oriented IoC.

What / where would be the way / place to do that?
1) each sub-project having sub-module with facade / fancy API
2) keeping a separate facade / fancy sub-project for all other MC sub-projects

[adrian.brock]

You're talking about old IOC style programming
i.e. registry.getBean(name);

I don't like this form of IOC since it means you are tied to the container api
and therefore not portable across IOC containers.

It should be discourged. The best way to get the bean is to inject it. :-)

But if you are going to do it, then you're better off using something like the locator
pattern examples I did in the initial user guide.

Either:
* Use the MC to build up a singleton hashtable name->object
http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/trunk/docs/examples/User_Guide/pojoDevelopment/locator/src/main/java/org/jboss/example/microcontainer/locator/HashtableLocator.java?revision=66902&view=markup
* Use the MC directly as the implementation detail of the locator
http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/trunk/docs/examples/User_Guide/pojoDevelopment/locator/src/main/java/org/jboss/example/microcontainer/locator/ControllerLocator.java?revision=66902&view=markup

[alesj]

* Use the MC directly as the implementation detail of the locator

It's this one that needs to be pimped even more. :-)
But the question was more 'where' to put this than what/how.
And /dev/null or /dev/random is not appripriate. ;-)