[jsr-314-open] [Fwd: CDI and JSF Phase Listeners]

[Dan Allen]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> On 8 Jan 2010, at 17:38, Dan Allen wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Roger Kitain <Roger.Kitain at sun.com>
> wrote:
> > It would be a nice feature to be able to have CDI injection in Phase
> > Listeners also, as any Servlet/JSF/CDI integration is always welcome
> > where applicable
> >
> >
> > This is actually a more general requirement (which we may have discussed
> in passing). Any user-defined class instance that JSF creates should be
> classified as a component in Java EE. But, to accommodate that without tying
> JSF directly to the platform (a separation we have always maintained), there
> should be a pluggable class instance resolver which could be satisfied with
> a CDI implementation, a Spring bean implementation, etc.
>

> I had initially thought we should just specify that JSF is required to
> support this injection, but I can see that specifying an SPI to support
> instantiation/lifecycle management of these objects would fit well with the
> pluggability goal that JSF has.
>

+1 To provide further justification, I think this is really going to help
users take advantage of the new extension points in JSF 2 without leaving
them to figure out how to tie those classes back into their programming
model. Otherwise, we my hear a lot of complaints.

-Dan

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