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

[Dan Allen]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Should I file a spec issue?

-Dan

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