The idea is to provide a similar functionality as the actual Bean Component, Initially I'm planning to implement a custom namespace, that will allow me to declare a switchyard service in a spring application context, first version would look like this:

<swyd:service id="myService" service-interface="org.jboss.switchyard.MyService"/>

This will assume a default location of the configuration file switcyrad.xml, else you will also be able to set by:

<swyd:service id="myService" service-interface="org.jboss.switchyard.MyService">

   <property name="conf-file" value="my-switchyard.xml"/>

</swyd:service>

By creating the custom namespace and handlers I should be able to inject, the service in a spring bean (any pojo) by either using annotation:

@Autowired MyService myService;

or as a reference in the spring application context

<bean id="mySpringPojo" class="org.jboss.spring.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">

    <property name="staticMethod" ref="myService">

</bean>

As the core concept is the same as the bean component let me know if I'm missing something, possibly at the service definition I should add more properties or something else..

In further version I have been thinking about make possible to declare transformers at application context.