Then I'm +1 on this change as well.

And no, I don't believe concrete class is defined.  Granted this is Java 8's JLS: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-8.html

John

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:11 AM Martin Kouba <mkouba@redhat.com> wrote:
Dne 4.5.2016 v 14:08 John D. Ament napsal(a):
> Just to confirm (because negatives always make things harder to digest)
>
> An abstract class annotated Decorator is a managed bean - correct?

Yes.

>
> Because of this line: It is a non-abstract class, or is annotated
> `@Decorator`.

It was previously:
"It is a concrete class, or is annotated @Decorator."

But I believe the JLS does not define a "concrete" class... correct me
if I'm wrong.

>
> John
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:12 AM Tomas Remes <tremes@redhat.com
> <mailto:tremes@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Yes this proposal is sufficient and reads better. I can change my PR
>     if there aren't any further objections?
>
>     Thank's
>     Tom
>
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>     Subject: Re: [cdi-dev] CDI-508 - Which java classes can be managed beans
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     given that local and anonymous classes are special kinds of inner
>     classes, we could also simply change the sentence to:
>
>     "It is not an inner class."
>
>     Anyway, I think the change of the first sentence is much more important,
>     i.e. removing the "top-level"...
>
>     Maybe we should also remove "top-level" from the next sentence:
>     "It is a top-level non-abstract class, or is annotated `@Decorator`."
>
>     So that we would end up with:
>
>     A Java class is a managed bean if it meets all of the following
>     conditions:
>     * It is not an inner class.
>     * It is a non-abstract class, or is annotated `@Decorator`.
>     * It does not implement `javax.enterprise.inject.spi.Extension`.
>     * It is not annotated `@Vetoed` or in a package annotated `@Vetoed`.
>     * It has an appropriate constructor - either:
>
>     What do you think?
>
>     Martin
>
>
>     Dne 4.5.2016 v 02:32 John D. Ament napsal(a):
>      > All,
>      >
>      > I think I had an action item to get this clarified, not 100%
>     sure, but
>      > let me give this a shot.
>      >
>      > Tomas raised a PR for CDI-508 to clarify which classes are meant
>     to be
>      > managed beans.  You can find that PR here:
>      > https://github.com/cdi-spec/cdi/pull/282/
>      >
>      > The line that doesn't sound right to me in the change is to go from:
>      >
>      > It is not a non-static inner class.
>      >
>      > to
>      >
>      > It is not a non-static nested class.
>      >
>      > I'll use the java programming language tutorial as a point of
>     reference,
>      > you can read the page I'll refer to here:
>      > https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/nested.html
>      >
>      > Basically, non-static nested classes are AKA inner classes.  The term
>      > "non-static inner class" shouldn't exist, and that means the original
>      > text doesn't make sense, and should probably be inferred as "It
>     is not
>      > an inner class"
>      >
>      >  From reading this part of the spec, it becomes unreadable due to the
>      > double negative (probably why the aka exists).  My proposal was to
>      > change the line to instead read (in a positive way) "It is a static
>      > nested class" but I can also understand if we want to do this in an
>      > exclusion pattern rather than an inclusion pattern.
>      >
>      > Thoughts?
>      >
>      > John
>      >
>      >
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