Hi Guys,
I was just looking at the startup performance of the Seam 3 booking example on AS7, and I noticed that because the Seam 2 archives that it deploys are bean archives, it actually wastes quite a lot of time on startup registering Seam 3 classes as CDI beans that are never used.
It occurred to me that we can get around this by using a beans.xml that includes welds <scan> extension in beans.xml to prevent uneeded beans being registered we could significantly improve the performance and memory usage of Seam 3 apps.
Now that the ridiculous visibility and extensions in non-bean archive problems are resolved, I'm in favor of switching back to registering beans manually rather than using beans.xml. That seems like a performance enhancement that's portable, so that we don't suck if Weld isn't the provider.
But I agree we should do one of the two options. We'll be moving tests around in Seam to align the setup, so it seems like a good time to run tests with the updated bean registration strategy.
-Dan