[webbeans-dev] @NormalScope and @Singleton

[Gavin King]

Actually @Singleton is a pseudo-scope, since it doesn't satisfy some
of the properties that 299 demands of normal scopes.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Mark Struberg<struberg at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm a bit confused about the description of the pseudo scopes in the latest spec (but it's really late here, so I might missed the point)
>
> a) ch 6.3:
>> Any scope that is not a normal scope is called a pseudo-scope.
>  -> @Singleton  [1] is per se only @Scope but not @NormalScope,
>> The concept of a current instance is not well-defined in the case of a pseudo-scope.
>  -> but instances of @Singleton are pretty well defined, isn't?
>
> Maybe we should introduce @Passivating and @PseudoScope instead of @NormalScope and invert the logic?
>
> b) ch 6.3
>> All pseudo-scopes must be explicitly declared @NormalScope,
>> to indicate to the container that no client proxy is required.
> vs ch 5.5
>> A contextual reference to a bean with a normal scope ...
>> ..not a direct reference...
>> Instead, the contextual reference is a client proxy object.
>
> I'd say pseudo scopes must _not_ declare @NormalScope?
>
> txs and LieGrue,
> strub
>
> [1] http://atinject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/javax/inject/Singleton.html
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