[jsr-314-open] No @PhaseListener annotation in JSF 2.0?

[Dan Allen]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ed Burns <Ed.Burns at sun.com> wrote:

> >>>>> On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:30:57 -0400, Neil Griffin <
> neil.griffin at liferay.com> said:
>
> NG> Hi Guys,
> NG> I can't remember -- was it a conscious decision to not have a
> NG> @PhaseListener annotation in JSF 2.0?
>
> Yes, we decided not to have it because we'd need lots of additional
> information related to the timing of discovery.


As I was driving down the road, this exact thought occurred to me. The
annotation would have to support ordering for phase listeners in the same
classpath and it would end up being pretty complicated.

Btw, it's the same reason interceptors have to be declared/activated in an
XML file for JSR-299.

-Dan

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