[Resteasy-developers] ResourceFactory

[Ryan J. M. <ry...@da...>]

I've been working on an example (most of which I have committed) which  
uses EJB3 + JPA + Seam. The contact entity is an object graph with  
multiple child elements. Ideally what I'd like to be able to do is to  
have the Contact entity that is returned become a sub-resource.  
However, we don't have a ResourceFactory that can handle that. So I  
was thinking about an EntityResourceFactory, but I see some challenges:

Introducing JPA (or Hibernate) would create another dependency
The ResourceMethodRegistry does not dynamically load ResourceFactory  
instances. For example, if we could have a another project load a  
custom ResourceFactory, how is it located and how does it get utilized?
There doesn't appear to be a clear way of  having  
ResourceMethodRegistry choose a particular ResourceFactory instance

I don't know if I'm missing anything, but I see this as an issue and  
something that the Seam folks might run into some issues?

Ryan-