Furnace Container: Simple

This addon is a 'Furnace container' that provides lifecycle and service registry support for dependent addons. Addons may depend on this to provide service instances to dependencies.

Dependencies: None

Setup

This Addon requires the following installation steps.

Add configuration to pom.xml

To use this Furnace container, you must add it as a dependency in the pom.xml of your forge-addon classified artifact:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.jboss.forge.furnace.container</groupId>
   <artifactId>simple</artifactId>
   <classifier>forge-addon</classifier>
   <version>${version}</version>
</dependency>

Add classes to the simple service registry.

In order for dependencies to use your services, you must add service types to the service registry.

Features

Provides simple service registration mechanism

Service types are not required to extend the org.jboss.forge.furnace.container.simple.Service interface, but may do so for reference purposes.

public class ExampleService implements Service // (optional)
{
   // ...
}

Service types may also receive the Furnace container instance as a constructor parameter:

public class ExampleService
{
   public ExampleService(Furnace furnace) {
      // do something constructor-like
   }
}

To register a type as a service, a file must be created with the name META-INF/services/org.jboss.forge.furnace.container.simple.Service, and each service type name must be added to this file on a separate line:

Example registration file:

META-INF/services/org.jboss.forge.furnace.container.simple.Service
......
org.example.ExampleService
org.example.ExampleService2
org.my.custom.MyService
......

Tip	Services registered in this way must exist in the same JAR file as the registry file.

Provides simple event listening mechanism

To register an EventListener, a file must be created with the name META-INF/services/org.jboss.forge.furnace.container.simple.EventListener, and each EventListener implementation type name must be added on a separate line:

public class ExampleEventListener implements EventListener
{
   public void handleEvent(Object event, Annotation... qualifiers)
   {
      System.out.println("Handled event: " + event)
   }
}

Example registration file:

META-INF/services/org.jboss.forge.furnace.container.simple.EventListener
......
org.example.ExampleEventListener
org.example.ExampleEventListener2
org.my.custom.MyEventListener
......

Tip	Listeners registered in this way must exist in the same JAR file as the registry file.