[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-476) Inheritance of private observer and initializer methods

Martin Kouba created CDI-476: -------------------------------- Summary: Inheritance of private observer and initializer methods Key: CDI-476 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-476 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Clarification Components: Inheritance and Specialization Affects Versions: 1.2.Final Reporter: Martin Kouba Initializer and observer methods may be private. In Java, private members are not inherited. However, the spec is not entirely clear in this area. "4. Inheritance and specialization" {quote} Member-level metadata is not inherited. However, injected fields, initializer methods, lifecycle callback methods and non-static observer methods are inherited by beans from their superclasses. {quote} "4.2. Inheritance of member-level metadata" (simplified): {quote} * If X declares an initializer or non-static observer method x() then Y inherits x() if and only if neither Y nor any intermediate class that is a subclass of X and a superclass of Y overrides the method x(). {quote} There is no mention we strictly follow the JSL here. At first glance, it seems the private members should not be inherited. However, these may be part of a bean initialization. And what happens if we *specialize* a bean with such private members? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.1#6329)