The problem is also with Phase.REGISTER, which is an awkward name because Phase.INSTALL (which captures the meaning) was already taken

Phase.*MODULE* is awkward because a Module may not be present - this is increasingly so because we support a wider range of OSGi bundle deployments (e.g. jdbc drivers and other 3rd party artefacts get distributed as bundles)

Phase.INSTALL is awkward (as you say) because according to the OSGi standard it means "install", but don't resolve/activate. In AS7 it means "activate"

-thomas
On 07/26/2012 10:55 PM, Ondřej Žižka wrote:

is that Phase.INSTALL is confusing with the OSGi meaning of INSTALL. I 
always have to use many words when I talk about 'install' in AS7. Now 
that we support war,ejb3,cdi deployments as OSGi bundles this is even 
more so.
How about just renaming INSTALL -> ACTIVATE, would that work?
I just started learning the AS lifecycles, so I don't really know, but the current naming seemed logical to me, and OSGi would not help me to understand the process much if it was in place...

my2c 

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