>>>>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:50:33 -0500, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com&gt; said: DA> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:44 PM, David Geary < clarity.training(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote: >> I'm all +1 for this. >> >> CDI is incredibly powerful, as Gavin says "it changes everything". It seems >> to me that loose coupling with strong typing, implemented with producers, >> events, interceptors, decorators and stereotypes, is the next logical step >> in the evolution of object-oriented development. >> >> And we get conversation scope to boot. :) >> >> DA> Yep. Adam Bien provided a nice taste of the kind of out-of-the-box DA> functionality you can get in a recent blog entry: DA> http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/java_ee_6_observer_with That does rock. I wonder, though, might there be some power in combining system events with javax.enterprise.event.Events? We are going to prototype this idea in the Seam 3 faces module. You are