[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (CDI-129) introduce @EnterpriseScoped (or similar)

[Marius Bogoevici (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-129?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12602033#comment-12602033 ] 

Marius Bogoevici commented on CDI-129:
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Mark, the 6.5.2 ref is a bit confusing. 

Here's what I read in my version of the spec:

2.4.1: 
{quote}
The @RequestScoped, @ApplicationScoped and @SessionScoped annotations defined in Section 6.7, “Context man-
 agement for built-in scopes” represent the standard scopes defined by the Java Servlets specification.
{quote}

The major complication of this item is that @ApplicationScoped and @RequestScoped are defined in ways that do not have anything to do with the Servlet specification - e.g. they are active for the duration of a JMS invocation, or an EJB timeout.

It is also said that 
{quote}
The application context is shared between all servlet requests, web service invocations, EJB remote method invocations,
EJB asynchronous method invocations, EJB timeouts and message deliveries to message-driven beans that execute within
the same application. The application context is destroyed when the application is shut down.
{quote}

Furthermore, the specification uses the notion of an "application" in the sense of "complete deployment", specifically indicating that EARs fall under this category. This is also consistent with the Java EE 6 usage of the term.
{quote}
In an application deployed as an ear, the container searches every bean archive bundled with or referenced by the ear,
including bean archives bundled with or referenced by wars and EJB jars contained in the ear. The bean archives might
be library jars, EJB jars, rars or war WEB-INF/classes directories.
{quote}

In my opinion the connection to the Servlet spec is the offending item and this is what should be fixed. We can introduce a WebApplication or Module scope, the latter of which would be much more consistent (as it might, for example, apply to EJB archives as well).

> introduce @EnterpriseScoped (or similar)
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CDI-129
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-129
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Contexts
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: Mark Struberg
>             Fix For: 1.1 (Proposed)
>
>
> Since @ApplicationScoped currently is defined in 6.5.2 as to be 'like in the Servlet specification' this means that you will get a new instance for every WebApplication (WAR file).
> There is currently no specified CDI scope for providing a single shared instance for a whole EAR.
> We could (ab-)use @Singleton for that, but this is currently not well defined at all.
> Alternatively we could introduce an own new annotation like @EnterpriseScoped or likes. 

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