[webbeans-dev] Basing the RI on the JBoss MC

[Pete Muir]

On 9 May 2008, at 17:00, Christian Bauer wrote:

>
> On May 09, 2008, at 17:50 , Pete Muir wrote:
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>> If we use the MC we get ootb:
>>
>> * flexible deployment system
>
> This, for me, is one of the deciding factors. The current Seam 2.x  
> deployment system is crude and has to be rewritten anyway in the  
> next major release to support
>
> a) Seam usage/deployment outside of a web container (Swing apps, etc.)
>
> b) Customized deployment for highly dynamic applications (I'm  
> currently struggling with a hot-redeployable plugin.jar system on  
> top of Seam).
>
> Although we made some of the Seam 2 deployment architecture more  
> extensible in 2.1 with DeploymentStrategy, any user who wants a) or  
> b) still has to roll their own deployment system starting with the  
> Initialization class (and lots of hacking).

Yes, the entire Seam bootstrap and deployment system is very cobbled  
together for a specific environment, and isn't very extensible (aka a  
mess). I certainly don't want to reuse it for WBRI (but we could take  
the lessons learnt). But it is a big thing to implement nicely. As we  
are going to use WBRI for the Seam 3 core it is important to get this  
right.