[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-150) Offer the ability to explicitly assemble an application from component bean archives

Offer the ability to explicitly assemble an application from component bean archives ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: CDI-150 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-150 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Packaging and Deployment Affects Versions: 1.0 Reporter: Geoffrey De Smet Fix For: TBD See the problem described in this comment on CDI-87: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-87?focusedCommentId=12626218 Solution proposal 1: Every beans.xml gets an id: {code} <beans id="org.jboss.seam.solder"> ... </beans> {code} Then it's possible to depend on other beans.xml files: {code} <beans id="org.jboss.seam.security"> <dependency refid="org.jboss.seam.solder"/> ... </beans> {code} So when guvnor depends on security, it can automatically, transitively inherit solder (without depending on it directly): {code} <beans id="org.drools.guvnor"> <dependency refid="org.jboss.seam.security"/> ... </beans> {code} So when guvnor upgrades to the next version of seam-security, it doesn't need to worry if seam-security still uses seam-solder and whether or not it requires any new bean sets (such as seam-international starting from seam-security 1.2).