[webbeans-dev] How does JSF deal with managed beans when Web Beans/299 is present?

[Pete Muir]

On 5 Aug 2009, at 00:16, Dan Allen wrote:

>
> I think it's better to address this by disabling JSF managed beans  
> when 299 is present, rather than by creating extra rules about how  
> the two interact. Any reason to take the latter approach?
>
> My only concern here is that someone writes an application that they  
> have been deploying to Tomcat or Jetty and then they turn around and  
> deploy it to JBoss AS for production (or pre-production). All of a  
> sudden, the playing field changes. This seems like a very realistic  
> scenario, especially for people migrating.

Why would 299 come into play in this scenario. They would have to  
alter their app and add beans.xml surely?

Or do you mean they were using Web Beans and JSF in Tomcat too? We  
fully intend to support the same behavior in Tomcat (disabling JSF  
managed beans).