


WicketStuff provides a module called wicketstuff-javaee-inject that contains component instantiation listener _JavaEEComponentInjector_. If we register this listener in our application we can use standard EJB annotations to inject dependencies into our Wicket components.

To register a component instantiation listener in Wicket we must use _Application_'s method _getComponentInstantiationListeners_ which returns a typed collection of _IComponentInstantiationListeners_.

The following initialization code is taken from project _EjbInjectionExample_:

[source,java]
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public class WicketApplication extends WebApplication
{
       //Constructor...

	@Override
	public void init()
	{
		super.init();
		getComponentInstantiationListeners().add(new JavaEEComponentInjector(this));
	}
}
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In this example the object that we want to inject is a simple class containing a greeting message:

[source,java]
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@ManagedBean
public class EnterpriseMessage {
	public String message = "Welcome to the EJB world!";
}
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Please note that we have used annotation ManagedBean to decorate our object. Now to inject it into the home page we must add a field of type EnterpriseMessage and annotate it with annotation _EJB_:

[source,java]
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public class HomePage extends WebPage {

	@EJB
	private EnterpriseMessage enterpriseMessage;
	//getter and setter for enterpriseMessage...

	public HomePage(final PageParameters parameters) {
		super(parameters);

		add(new Label("message", enterpriseMessage.message));
	}
}
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That is all. We can point the browser to the home page of the project and see the greeting message injected into the page:

image::./img/EjbInjectionExample.png[]

