Question

How can I inject a property to a class I don’t have access to using Guice? I only have access to the .jar that contains that class.

Also, I need the injected property to be available from the start of a Web Application (I suppose I can do this with a Servlet though).

Thanks

Answer 1

Take a look at the Provider class. You can have something like this (where Foo is the 3rd party bean):

public class FooProvider implements Provider<Foo> {
    public Foo get() {
        return new Foo();
    }
}

(Alternatively, take a look at guice-xml, but I don’t know how stable and up-to-date it is.)