[webbeans-dev] Application scope not active

[Gavin King]

The application scope is essentially always active, on any thread that
is executing in the application.

It doesn't need to be a threadlocal object.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Nicklas Karlsson <nickarls at gmail.com> wrote:
> 9.6.3 in the 20081203 specs lists when the Application scope is active:
>
> • The application scope is active during the service() method of any
> servlet in the web application.
> • The application scope is active during any Java EE web service invocation.
> • The application scope is also active during any remote method
> invocation of any EJB bean, during any call to an EJBtimeout method
> and during message delivery to any EJB message driven bean
>
> When is the application scope *not* active?
>
> The specs says that "The application context is shared between all
> servlet requests, web service invocations, EJB remote method
> invocations,EJB timeouts and message deliveries to message driven
> beans that execute within the same application". But apparently the
> application context active state is not shared? I can't recall Pete's
> motivation, but I recall changing the active to a ThreadLocal.
> Apparently it not "always on", and the states (application scope and
> others) should be flipped according to the lifecycle rules in the
> specs?
> ---
> Nik
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