JavaxInjectOnAbstractMethod

The Inject annotation cannot be applied to abstract methods, per the JSR-330 spec, since injectors will only inject those methods if the concrete implementer of the abstract method has the Inject annotation as well. See OverridesJavaxInjectableMethod for more examples of this interaction.

Currently, default methods in interfaces are not injected if they have Inject for similar reasons, although future updates to dependency injection frameworks may allow this, since the default methods are not abstract.

See the Guice wiki page on JSR-330 for more.