[webbeans-dev] Input for tooling around webbeans

[Dan Allen]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Gavin King <gavin at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Mmmm ... I dunno. Usually a decorator is going to be for a specific interface,
> not for a specific web bean.

I realized that upon further review.

> Seriously, I'm not sure how much extra value there is to this that is not
> already covered by eclipse's ability to generate a class from an interface....

I think you're right in that the value has to be considered here. I
guess my focus was on getting that @Decorates field created at the
time the class is created through the use of an Eclipse form. It's
also I think about raising awareness for the decorator. So the idea
would be, I have a Web Bean open and a right click on an interface and
say "create decorator for interface". Then I get the standard
class-from-interface dialogs. But when the class is created, it has a
@Decorates field that matches the Web Bean I had opened. Perhaps I can
even pick which methods I want to decorate and the body is filled out
with a call to the target method. As I talk through it, there does
seem to be reasonable value there.

-Dan

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