Declaring service dependencies

The Folder Listing web script declares a single dependency on the Repository service as follows:

...
<bean id="webscript.org.example.javadir.get"
  class="org.example.JavaDir" parent="webscript">
 <property name="repository" ref="repositoryHelper"/>
</bean>
...    

Each dependency is represented by a <property> element whose name attribute identifies the setter method to call and whose ref attribute identifies the service to depend on. The ref value is actually an ID of another bean. All SkyVault services are declared as beans, so can be injected in this way. In the example, repository maps to the setRepository() method and repositoryHelper maps to the bean representing the Repository service.

  

...
public class JavaDir extends DeclarativeWebScript
{
  ...
  public void <b>setRepository</b>(Repository repository)
  {
  ...
  }
}

Although this example only declares a single dependency, you can declare multiple dependencies. The Spring Framework calls setter methods during the initialization of the Java-backed web script, so all dependencies are resolved by the time the executeImpl() is invoked.