As you want to follow the principle of Inversion of Control, you must not access the service directly. You need a Container to access the service.

With this command you get your current container:

This might be a PortalContainer or a StandaloneContainer, dependant on the execution mode in which you are running your application.

Whenever you need one of the services that you have configured use the method:

In our case:

Recapitulation:

package com.laverdad.common;


import org.exoplatform.container.ExoContainer;

import org.exoplatform.container.ExoContainerContext;

import com.laverdad.services.*;


public class Statistics {


  public int makeStatistics(String articleText) {

    ExoContainer myContainer = ExoContainerContext.getCurrentContainer();

    ArticleStatsService statsService = (ArticleStatsService)

        myContainer.getComponentInstance(ArticleStatsService.class);    

    int numberOfSentences = statsService.calcSentences(articleText);

    return numberOfSentences;

  }

  

  public static void main( String args[]) {

   Statistics stats = new Statistics();

   String newText = "This is a normal text. The method only counts the number of periods. "

   + "You can implement your own implementation with a more exact counting. "

   + "Let`s make a last sentence.";

  System.out.println("Number of sentences: " + stats.makeStatistics(newText));

  }

}

If you test this sample in standalone mode, you need to put all jars of eXo Kernel in your buildpath, furthermore picoContainer is needed.