We use Cassandra (and the DataStax driver) to store our entities. As such we have a custom entity service that creates new instances of our entity classes when it retrieves data from Cassandra.

I also need to inject services into my entity classes using CDI. How do I do this? When I simply at the @Inject annotation, it never gets injected.

public class Customer{

    @Inject
    private Event<DeactivationEvent> events;

    private String uid;

    public void setUid(String uid){
        this.uid = uid;
    }

    public String getUid(){
        return this.uid;
    }

    public void deactivate(){
        events.fire( new DeactivationEvent() );
    }

}

public CassandraEntityService{

    public Customer findCustomer(String uid){

        ...whatever lookup logic...
        Customer customer = new Customer();
    
        customer.setUid(..)
        customer.set...
    
        return customer;
    }

}

Thanks.