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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The attached project (maven and intellij) exhibits the problem with private observer methods when an App scoped bean is decorated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can rung it from IJ, or from the command line using: <span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"'>mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=Main<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As delivered, you should see output like the following:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>doSomething decorator, <a href="mailto:delegate=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass@4550bb58">delegate=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass@4550bb58</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>doSomething, <a href="mailto:this=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass@4550bb58">this=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass@4550bb58</a>, anInt=5<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Got event, <a href="mailto:this=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_Weld$Proxy$@49139829">this=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_Weld$Proxy$@49139829</a> <= should be org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Got event, anInt=0 <= should be 5<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note the “anInt=0” where it should be 5. If you change AppScopeBean#observer from ‘private’ to ‘protected’ you will see output like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>doSomething decorator, <a href="mailto:delegate=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass@4550bb58">delegate=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass@4550bb58</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>doSomething, <a href="mailto:this=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass@4550bb58">this=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass@4550bb58</a>, anInt=5<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Got event, <a href="mailto:this=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass@4550bb58">this=org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass@4550bb58</a> <= should be org.jboss.weld.proxies.AppScopeBean$Proxy$_$$_WeldSubclass<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Got event, anInt=5 <= should be 5<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note that in the latter case, the member variable is properly initialized. The problem stems from the fact that the proxy implementation doesn’t include the private methods. I think that the changes included in <a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WELD-2092">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WELD-2092</a> have broken decorated beans with private observer methods. It also hinders tests that use things like JMockit Deencapsulation to invoke private methods on bean instances.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t know how this all reconciles with the CDI spec, but the current implementation seems broken if I can’t have a private observer method simply because the class is the target of a Decorator.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for taking the time to review this post.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Larry.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>