Looking for a OSGi capable dependency-injection-framework with support for session scoped services

Question

This question is a followup question to Spring framework download as OSGi bundles.

I am looking for a framework that is capable of doing the following:

• it has to work in an OSGi environment
• some concept of beans/services/whatever you want to call it
• this beans/services need to be able to have a session scope, ideally tied to a web session
• injection of this beans/services into the components that need them via dependency injection (optional but highly appreciated - and I guess a framework that can do the stuff from above most likely can also do dependency injection)
• must be considered reliable and stable, with good outlook on future support

Originally I was looking into Eclipse Gemini Blueprint, but (a) I have troubles to get it up and running (refer to question above) and (b) not only an answer to my question showed some concerns but also I am not so sure about using it anymore myself. I can't find much references that it is widely used, the forum is almost dead (like 8 pages in 4 years) and it seems there are not many contributors on git involved (23 commits for whole 2013). I don't want to end up with a framework thats considered abandonware in less than a year.

My question now is: Is there any framework around (besides Eclipse Gemini) that is capable of session-scoped beans and preferrably dependency injection? I also accept a "no" as an answer as I start to fear that there is really none out there. Alternatively you can talk me back into using Eclipse Gemini if you have good arguments.

Answer 1

Check out Pax CDI.

Don't be put off by the current version, it's maturing fast and is pretty stable. A colleague of mine uses it for his pet project and he seems to be quite happy with it.