@Inject : A discouraged sling-model annotation
"I just copy and paste it from somewhere and since it was working so I keep it like this. 😎" @ Model (adaptables = Resource . class ) public class ExampleModel { @ Inject private MyService myService ; @ Inject private String title ; // ... rest of the class } I got this reply from the developer while reviewing his code above so thought of writing one extension post of my previous blog Common Myths Around Sling Model . So lets dive into the working mechanism of @Inject annotation but before that I would like to explain the injector first. An OOB injector @ Component (property= Constants . SERVICE_RANKING + ":Integer=3000" , service={ Injector . class , InjectAnnotationProcessorFactory2 . class }) public class ChildResourceInjector extends AbstractInjector implements Injector , Inject