[webbeans-dev] Re: suggestion for Web Beans regarding @Named

[Gavin King]

Yeah, I hate it, but it probably does make sense.

Send the proposal to the web beans group, I suppose.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gavin,
>
> I have a suggestion for Web Beans regarding the convention used by the
> @Named annotation. The nice part about this annotation is that it
> doesn't require the use of a string value to create a name that maps
> to the class name. In ~80% of cases, that is what people would do
> anyway. However, for framework builders, I can see them wanting to
> create fully-qualified names like in Seam to avoid naming conflicts.
> Would it be reasonable to propose adding an attribute to the @Named
> annotation that indicates the Java package should be prepended to the
> calculated name?
>
> @Named(qualified = true)
>
> That would avoid people slipping into the non-type safe pattern of:
>
> @Named("org.jboss.seam.core.expressions")
>
> -Dan
>
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