Clarify serializability requirements for interceptors/decorators ---------------------------------------------------------------- Key: CDI-187 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-187 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Clarification Components: Contexts, Decorators, Interceptors Affects Versions: 1.1.EDR1 Reporter: Jozef Hartinger Fix For: 1.1.EDR2 The spec says: {quote}A managed bean is passivation capable if and only if the bean class is serializable and all interceptors and decorators of the bean *are serializable*.{quote} The "interceptors and decorators of the bean *are serializable*" part is problematic. While it is fine to examine the defining class in case of standard interceptors/decorators, the question is: How to find out whether an extension-provided interceptor/decorator in serializable? It does not make sense to check the implementation of the Interceptor/Decorator interfaces nor to examine the class returned by Bean.getBeanClass() as that would break the abstraction. IMHO, the spec should say that: {quote}A managed bean is passivation capable if and only if the bean class is serializable and all interceptors and decorators of the bean are *passivation capable*.{quote} Where a standard interceptor/decorator would be passivation capable if and only if it implemented the Serializable interface whereas the following section of the spec would handle extension-provided interceptors/decorators. {quote}A custom implementation of Bean is passivation capable if it implements the interface PassivationCapable. An imple- mentation of Contextual that is not a bean is passivation capable if it implements both PassivationCapable and Serial- izable. {quote} -- 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