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

[Dan Allen]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Gavin King <gavin at hibernate.org> wrote:
> That's really not a bad idea.

whoohoo!

>
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dan Allen
>>>>> Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action
>>>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Dan Allen
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>>
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Dan Allen
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