[webbeans-dev] Fwd: static producers

[Gavin King]

Hi Chris.

What I'm thinking is simply to not define/support specialization for
static producers.

I think that's fine....

Do you see a problem with that?

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Chris Dempsey <cdallas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.  I've been a lurker on the list for a while and have been reading
> and studying the spec like a mad man.  If I go off the rails here feel free
> to let me know. :)
>
> The only thing I can think of as a possible issue with this is Web Bean
> specialization?  Static methods cannot be overridden and only hidden by
> sub-classes and the declared type (any actual instance is ignored) is used
> to resolve which static method is called.  If you had a static
> Foo#producerMethod and a specialization of a static MockFoo#producerMethod
> Web Beans would have to know to call MockFoo.producerMethod and couldn't
> rely on Foo.producerMethod to resolve polymorphically to the specialized
> producer method.
>
> I don't think it would be a problem that couldn't be overcome but it would
> seem to complicate the specialization rules quite a bit.
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Gavin King <gavin at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Gavin King <gavin at hibernate.org>
>> Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:50 PM
>> Subject: static producers
>> To: Java Community Process JSR #299 Expert List <JSR-299-EG at jcp.org>
>>
>>
>> Question:
>>
>> should we allow producer methods and fields to be declared "static"?
>>
>> This would mean that the Web Bean manager does not need to instantiate
>> an instance of the Web Bean that declares the producer method/field
>> when invoking the method/field.
>>
>> I can't think of a good reason why *not*...
>>
>> Furthermore, should we allow static observer and disposal methods?
>> Again, I can't quite think of a reason why *not*...
>>
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