[weld-dev] Generic beans

[Gavin King]

OK, so I had a great idea today. If we can successfully implement this
as a portable extension, it should form the foundation of a lot of
stuff we implement in Seam3 (for example, Drools, JMS and JPA
integration).

Take a look at this:

http://www.seamframework.org/Weld/PortableExtensionsPackage#H-GenericBeans

Would someone please look into exactly how hard this is to implement
on the CDI 1.0 SPI? I think it's possible, though we might end up with
some annoying limitations.

I think this can *really* clean up the configuration of things like
persistence contexts, JMS sessions, Drools rule bases, etc. Now,
instead of several entries in an XML file, the user just writes a
single producer field declaration. It also dramatically simplifies the
implementation of this kind of PE.

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Gavin King
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