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

[Gavin King]

That's really not a bad idea.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could put the @Named annotation on package-info.java to have it
> apply to an entire package. In that case, you could go one of two
> directions. You could either say that a @Named on package-info.java
> enables qualified names for uses of @Named in that package OR you
> could say that it just acts as a setting, in which case you would
> still need @Named(qualified = true). Personally, I like the first way.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Gavin King <gavin at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> Perhaps a better idea is some archive-level setting to change the behavior
>> of @Named. Not sure...
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Gavin King <gavin at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>> 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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>>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
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>
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