[e4-dev] upcoming changes to IEclipseContext

[Oleg Besedin <obesedin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am working on cleaning up the context
injection story. The first set of changes include:

- new method IEclipseContext#make(Class)
to create a class using constructor, field, and method injection

- support for injection of data into
methods with multiple arguments:
        @Inject
         void
myMethod(@Named("time") String time, @Named("date")
String date)

- the mapping of context key to the
injected parameter or field has changed. We no longer attempt to convert
case of the first character and usually don't use method names to find
the object to inject. The preferred method to establish "what is expected
to be injected" will be the use of "@Named" qualifier. 

- changes of prefixes for Java 1.4 support:
from "di_Field" and "setMethod" to "inject_Field"
and "inject_Method". (The "set" prefix was way too
common and "di_" was not very informative.)


There will be more changes, for instance,
I'd like to reduce the number of post-construct and pre-destory methods
we support.  If you are working with contexts, consider subscribing
to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=294109
for up-to-date information.

(Once we are more-or-less finished with
the cleanup and support for JSR 330 I plan to write a whitepaper describing
the use of contexts and injection.)

Sincerely,
Oleg Besedin