[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-18?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.sys... ] Ales Justin edited comment on CDI-18 at 12/8/11 9:26 AM: --------------------------------------------------------- I'm not saying BDA impls are perfect :-), but I do think we need some abstraction like BDA. It's easy to say we don't need it, and let's then make everything flat. Which is - as you say - probably how big JEE apps look like, but not everything is JEE. ;-) e.g. we had a big customer with MicroContainer (AS5/6 kernel), which used custom CL rules, and having BDA would make it possible for them to use CDI, if they wanted (this was pre-CDI). btw: how do you then follow bean visibility rules in OWB in hierarchy .ears? was (Author: alesj): I'm not saying BDA impls are perfect :-), but I do think we need some abstraction like BDA. It's easy to say we don't need it, and let's then make everything flat. Which is - as you say - probably how big JEE apps look like, but not everything is JEE. ;-) e.g. we had a big customer with MicroContainer (AS5/5 kernel), which used custom CL rules, and having BDA would make it possible for them to use CDI, if they wanted (this was pre-CDI). btw: how do you then follow bean visibility rules in OWB in hierarchy .ears? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira