12.5.3. Types of Service Dependencies

Any method on the service implementation class accepting a single parameter and annotated with @InjectService is considered requesting injection of another service.

By default the type of the method parameter is expected to be the service role to be injected. If the parameter type is different than the service role, the serviceRole attribute of the InjectService should be used to explicitly name the role.

By default injected services are considered required, that is the start up will fail if a named dependent service is missing. If the service to be injected is optional, the required attribute of the InjectService should be declared as false (default is true).

The second approach is a pull approach where the service implements the optional service interface org.hibernate.service.spi.ServiceRegistryAwareService which declares a single injectServices method.

During startup, Hibernate will inject the org.hibernate.service.ServiceRegistry itself into services which implement this interface. The service can then use the ServiceRegistry reference to locate any additional services it needs.