Re: [jsr-314-open] [Fwd: CDI and JSF Phase Listeners]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On 8 Jan 2010, at 17:38, Dan Allen wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Roger Kitain <Roger.Kitain(a)sun.com&gt; > wrote: > > It would be a nice feature to be able to have CDI injection in Phase > > Listeners also, as any Servlet/JSF/CDI integration is always welcome > > where applicable > > > > > > This is actually a more general requirement (which we may have discussed > in passing). Any user-defined class instance that JSF creates should be > classified as a component in Java EE. But, to accommodate that without tying > JSF directly to the platform (a separation we have always maintained), there > should be a pluggable class instance resolver which could be satisfied with > a CDI implementation, a Spring bean implementation, etc. > > I had initially thought we should just specify that JSF is required to > support this injection, but I can see that specifying an SPI to support > instantiation/lifecycle management of these objects would fit well with the > pluggability goal that JSF has. > +1 To provide further justification, I think this is really going to help users take advantage of the new extension points in JSF 2 without leaving them to figure out how to tie those classes back into their programming model. Otherwise, we my hear a lot of complaints.