Install custom Jersey ViewProcessor from Guice ServletModule - jersey

I am using jersey-guice to set up all my Jersey 1 resources using a bunch of Guice (Servlet)Modules.
I have written a custom ViewProcessor (CustomViewProcessor) that relies on a configuration object, that I want to be injected into it using Guice. This CustomViewProcessor should be picked up and used by Jersey every time it needs one.
How do I tell Jersey to fetch a Guice-created CustomViewProcessor instance whenever it needs a ViewProcessor? I want to set all this up within my Guice Modules' configure methods.

I found out that this is rather easy: Just create that CustomViewProcessor class and annotate it with #Provider. By binding it with Guice (and having jersey-guice installed), your CustomViewProcessor will be instantiated and used in the right places.
The CustomViewProcessor class can use all the #Injected fields that you wish, like configuration objects.

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Spring-Boot: share an object between components

I have a custom object which I like to share between different Spring-Boot components (e.g. WebHandler, Authenticator, Filter).
Maybe the easiest way is a static object in the main-class but thats not very elegant.
Whats the most common way to do it?
The whole point of spring as a container is to manage your objects.
Now statics do not have a well defined lifecycle ( when exactly this object gets created, who disposes it when the application gets closed, etc)
Speing answers all these questions by using thecdependency injection techniques. If you're already using spring then you should define this 'shared object' as a spring bean (by default it will have scope singleton just like static object that you've proposed but managed by spring container which is better - it will manage the lifecycle of the object by itself)
Then given the classes that must be dependent of the object are beans by themselves you can inject that bean:
class MySharedObject {}
class MyWebHandler implementsWebHandler {
private final MySharedObject mySharedObject;
public MyWebHandler(MySharedObject mySharedObject) {
this.mySharedObject = mySharedObject;
In addition to the lifecycle management this way allows easy unit testing of classes that use the shared object (like 'MyWebHandler' in this case) - now uou can create a stub/mock of the shared object and pass it into the handler - something that cannot really be easily done when using statics
So in summary if you can use spring and define it as a bean - by all means do so, the usage of statics is discouraged if you already have a dependency injection container
If you have shared object first of all it should not contain any state as differents components can change it and also it should be thread safe.
It is fine to reuse it across all components via #Autowired annotation but you need to be sure that it is threadsafe. Spring bean scope singleton is not thread safe out of box it dependes how you write the code.
You can use as static method but it dependes on logic which you have and if those component has an dependency on another objects and if they need to in spring IOC.

Spring Boot - Load bean only if it is enabled by a property

I have a Spring Boot application with different submodules which also contains spring components.
And in the main web modules I use 70% of the beans from the submodules. It depends on the application.yml properties, if the property group (which points to a bean) is enabled or not.
First I wanted to create Aspect-s, so when a method of a bean (which is not enabled by it's property) is called, then throw an exception. This solution could work, but then I would need to create Aspect classes, method annotations, import more and more dependencies.
So I am just wondering, would be there any other easier solution to disable a bean, or do not load at all to the spring boot container?
I would imagine something like #DependsOn, but for this you need to give a name of a bean name, but you cannot use this annotation to work with yml property.
Other easy solution is to #Bean or #Import every bean I want to managed by spring container, instead of #Import everything once from submodules, but then it is a static setting, cannot be overwrite by a single property from yml.
Spring introduced the concept of conditionals quite some time ago. Spring Boot uses this to a great extend to conditionally enable features. It even created a lot of conditional rules which you can use.
One of those rules is the conditional on a property rule. To use this rule add an #ConditionalOnProperty annotation to your bean. Now it will only be included if said property is enabled or has the specific value.
#ConditionalOnProperty(name="your.property.name")

Annotating Groovy beans to load within Spring

Our application uses #Bean to define create beans and load them into the Spring context.
We now need to externalize these, so as to enable the application to be configured without touching the java source code.
We wish to replace the #Bean's with Groovy classes.
Is there a way to annotate a Groovy bean so that it will be picked up by Spring?
Note that we cannot simply reference each Groovy bean in the Spring XML, as we need to add and modify beans without touching the Spring code.
Thanks very much.
Use Spring config inheritance.
Move all shared code in a common "base" project that each individual / specific project depends on. Use Maven for this.
Create a common / base Spring config and put that into the "base" project. This config doesn't contain a definition for ProcessDefinition
In the specific project, create one bean which inherits from ProcessDefinition. Create a Spring config which imports the base config and define the single specific bean in it.

integrating spring 2.5.6 and Struts 1.3.8

I want to clear some moments about integrating spring and struts. I have only one action class per application extended from MappingDispatchAction. So, actually my app when doing something uses not Action objects, but methods from my action. All I want from spring is to initialize this action and all for now. Just simply set DAO object. I looked through documentation, but I don't understand following:
We use action path from struts-config.xml as a name of bean in action-servlet.xml. Okay, but am I supposed to write beans in action-servlet.xml for every path name and set this poor DAO ref or what ?
The Struts 1 config file will use the DelegatingActionProxy class as the type attribute for all action configurations.
The Spring config file will contain the bean definitions of each action implementation. I don't know what DAO you're talking about, but actions that require DAO or service injection need to have them listed, yes--that's what Spring configuration is.
You may also be able to use annotations if you're not interested in using XML configuration, or use bean inheritance if many beans share the same DAO/service/etc. property values.

Combine two maven based projects on two frameworks

I have two maven projects say MvnSpring and MvnGuice.MvnSpring is working on spring and hibernate frame works.
And MvnGuice is working on google guice and mybatis. I need to combine both the features together.
Both are following singleton pattern. I need to get some class of MvnSpring in MvnGuice while coding. So that I created a jar of MvnSpring and put it in .m2 repository and give the dependacy details in MvnGuice. Now I can import classes of MvnSpring in MvnGuice classes.MvnSpring uses spring dependency injection and MvnGuice uses guice dependency injection for object creation. Now in MvnSpring flow is MSserviceImpl(implements MSservice) > MSdaoImpl(implements MSdao). Now I need to call MSService class from MvnGuice. Then at run time it shows error like MSService class is null. Then I made a guice dependency injection for MSService class in MvnGuice. Now the control reaches MSserviceImpl but now MSdao is null at here. Is it possible to start MvnSpring along with MvnGuice. I hope then I can solve the issue.
While Spring and Guice are targeted at the same problem, IoC, they take very different approaches to solve it. They differ both in functionality and in how they are configured, where Spring has bean definitions and Guice uses bindings.
Fortunately they do have common grounds in that they both support JSR-330, a standards specification that defines a set of annotations. This enables you to write your singletons and describe the injections that they need without depending on either Spring or Guice.
This way you can share your singletons between projects irregardless of the framework you use in a particular project. I would not recommend using both Guice and Spring in the same project, except if there's a clearly defined separation between them. For instance you might use Guice for a module that is used by Spring code via a defined API that hides the fact that it internally is based on Guice.
There was already mentioned JSR-330.
For some cases it can be not enough, e.g., you have code:
final String className = config.getProperty(«serviceImpl»);
// Class.forName(name) and check required interface for type safety
final Class<? extends Service> serviceClass = Reflection.classForName(className, Service.class);
final Service service = injector.getInstance(serviceClass);
In different DI environments you are supposed to support both com.guice.inject.Injector.getInstance() and org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext.getBean() implementations.
There is the draft solution sdif4j Simple Dependency Injection Facade.
The idea of this project is to encapsulate different DI frameworks logic with own abstraction to extend default JSR-330 possibilities. Note, there is no public releases yet, but you can find ideas how to solve your problem or make an internal release in a fork.
The general issue, is that your both MvnSpring and MvnGuice projects are supposed to be based on JSR-330 (instead of guice/spring annotations) and org.sdif4j:sdif4j-api (or your own abstraction; only if Injector functionality is required). It is recommended to make guice and spring dependencies optional (to compile but not export) to allow the library clients to choose the DI themselves.
In your MvnCompineGuiceAndSpring you just declare sdif4j-guice or sdif4j-spring dependency (it is similar to slf4j usage) and configure your DI environment. You can find different examples in testing subproject.
Some more notes:
Spring default scope is singleton, Guice - prototype (Spring terminology). So, if you want a prototype bean, you can use:
#org.springframework.context.annotation.Scope("prototype")
#javax.inject.Named
public class TestPrototype {
}
The Spring #Scope annotation should be ignored by guice even if spring does not present in your classpath.
Also you have to declare all your Singleton beans with #javax.inject.Named and #javax.inject.Singleton annotation to support both Spring and Guice, like this:
#javax.inject.Named
#javax.inject.Singleton
public class TestSingleton implements ITestSingleton {
public TestSingleton() {
}
}
As with #Scope annotation, you can use #ImplementedBy(#ProvidedBy) guice annotations on your code (when feasible; be careful with it, in general it is not a good practice), that should be also ignored in Spring DI (in both cases if Spring exists in classpath or not).
Hope, that's clear.

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