One of the popular features in the Seam 2 "container" is startup components (which would be startup beans in CDI terminology). I'm trying to determine the best way to approach this feature and where it should live (i.e., Weld X and/or Seam 3, hence the x-post). While it's true that EJB 3.1 supports startup beans, it unnecessarily links them to: - enterprise beans (my, where have we heard this before? cough transactions cough) - singletons Seam 2 supports startup components that are instantiated (as in @PostConstruct gets invoked) when the scope to which the component is bound is activated. Supported scopes include application and session. I don't see any reason why we can't support all (or most) scopes in Weld X/Seam 3. At first glance, you might think about initializing @ApplicationScoped @Startup beans in an AfterDeploymentValidation observer (the application-scope is active at that point) [1] (also see note). That's certainly one way to go, though perhaps jumping the gun as some other extensions may still report a deployment error. It also doesn't address the remaining scopes. The better place to do eager initialization is perhaps the Seam 3 Servlet module. This module bridges the Servlet context events to the CDI event bus, providing the opportunity to initialize components bound to the relevant scopes. However, my concern is that if those events fire before the CDI implementation has started the scope, it's going to result in a ContextNotActiveException (Nik, would you be able to provide insight into whether this ordering issue has been address?). I'd also like to entertain the idea of having a transient startup scope (@ApplicationStartupScoped?). Most of the time developers employ a application-scoped startup bean, it's doing something like seeding a database, creating directories or some other routine that's a one time deal. It seems like a waste to have these beans hang around long after their job is done. In fact, I anticipate it becoming the most commonly-used scope for startup beans. After considering the options, it seems to me that long-term, this feature would be more robust if it were part of the CDI specification. (Even the JSF managed bean container supports eager bean initialization for application-scoped beans). Or perhaps I'm missing a very straightforward way to address it. I'm interested in hearing your suggestions. After I get feedback about which project/module should tackle this problem, I'll create a JIRA for it. -Dan [1] http://gist.github.com/635719 Note: There's another issue. BeanManager#getReference() may only return a proxy and not instantiate the bean, meaning @PostConstruct is not yet called. In the linked gist, I worked around this problem by invoking toString() on the reference. I'll mention that Resin has addressed @Startup support for managed beans: http://caucho.com/resin-4.0/examples/ioc-binding/viewfile?file=WEB-INF/cl... -- Dan Allen Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen _______________________________________________ weld-dev mailing list weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/weld-dev

The servlet event bridge has an @Initialized ServletContextEvent. For JSF 2 there is also the possibility of the startup system event. The ordering is currently hardcoded into weld-int by placing the WeldListener before application servlet listeners. But I recall seeing a ContextNotActive in a custom ServletListener so I'm not sure that is foolproof either, someone with better as-weld integration knowledge should perhaps look it over. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: Doing it in the CDI container startup callbacks is not correct as the container is not fully initialised. For Seam 3.0 you will need to use an EJB 3.1 singleton (which provides an application startup callback), or listen to servlet callbacks (we may need to fix the ordering of the Seam servlet listeners outside of JBoss AS/GF). Doing this through events also addresses your "transient startup scope" as you can simply declare your bean dependent, meaning it will be destroyed after the observer invocation is complete. We should standardise the events sent so that they can be called outside of Servlet too. What are they currently? On 20 Oct 2010, at 05:05, Dan Allen wrote: > One of the popular features in the Seam 2 "container" is startup components (which would be startup beans in CDI terminology). I'm trying to determine the best way to approach this feature and where it should live (i.e., Weld X and/or Seam 3, hence the x-post). > > While it's true that EJB 3.1 supports startup beans, it unnecessarily links them to: > > - enterprise beans (my, where have we heard this before? cough transactions cough) > - singletons > > Seam 2 supports startup components that are instantiated (as in @PostConstruct gets invoked) when the scope to which the component is bound is activated. Supported scopes include application and session. I don't see any reason why we can't support all (or most) scopes in Weld X/Seam 3. > > At first glance, you might think about initializing @ApplicationScoped @Startup beans in an AfterDeploymentValidation observer (the application-scope is active at that point) [1] (also see note). That's certainly one way to go, though perhaps jumping the gun as some other extensions may still report a deployment error. It also doesn't address the remaining scopes. > > The better place to do eager initialization is perhaps the Seam 3 Servlet module. This module bridges the Servlet context events to the CDI event bus, providing the opportunity to initialize components bound to the relevant scopes. However, my concern is that if those events fire before the CDI implementation has started the scope, it's going to result in a ContextNotActiveException (Nik, would you be able to provide insight into whether this ordering issue has been address?). > > I'd also like to entertain the idea of having a transient startup scope (@ApplicationStartupScoped?). Most of the time developers employ a application-scoped startup bean, it's doing something like seeding a database, creating directories or some other routine that's a one time deal. It seems like a waste to have these beans hang around long after their job is done. In fact, I anticipate it becoming the most commonly-used scope for startup beans. > > After considering the options, it seems to me that long-term, this feature would be more robust if it were part of the CDI specification. (Even the JSF managed bean container supports eager bean initialization for application-scoped beans). Or perhaps I'm missing a very straightforward way to address it. > > I'm interested in hearing your suggestions. After I get feedback about which project/module should tackle this problem, I'll create a JIRA for it. > > -Dan > > [1] http://gist.github.com/635719 > > Note: There's another issue. BeanManager#getReference() may only return a proxy and not instantiate the bean, meaning @PostConstruct is not yet called. In the linked gist, I worked around this problem by invoking toString() on the reference. > > I'll mention that Resin has addressed @Startup support for managed beans: http://caucho.com/resin-4.0/examples/ioc-binding/viewfile?file=WEB-INF/cl... > > -- > Dan Allen > Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action > Registered Linux User #231597 > > http://mojavelinux.com > http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction > http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen > _______________________________________________ > weld-dev mailing list > weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/weld-dev _______________________________________________ weld-dev mailing list weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/weld-dev -- --- Nik _______________________________________________ weld-dev mailing list weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/weld-dev

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: If we move @Initialized to WeldX and add some qualifiers like @Application, someone can then do @Observes @Application @Initialized Object o to be notified of app startup. Exactly. I was thinking one of the main events that would be nice to have irregardless of being in or outside of a Servlet environment is the definitive application start event. -Dan -- Dan Allen Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen

Doing it in the CDI container startup callbacks is not correct as the container is not fully initialised. For Seam 3.0 you will need to use an EJB 3.1 singleton (which provides an application startup callback), or listen to servlet callbacks (we may need to fix the ordering of the Seam servlet listeners outside of JBoss AS/GF). Doing this through events also addresses your "transient startup scope" as you can simply declare your bean dependent, meaning it will be destroyed after the observer invocation is complete.

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The main difference between EJB 3.1 singleton and servlet listener is that the EJB 3.1 solution starts only one component in one member of the cluster.. Not the latter.

So there is a difference between "application scope" and "application-as-deployed-in-cluster" scope. Most of the so-called "ApplicationScope" components are not well named IMHO as there is one component per member in a cluster, not 1 per application as deployed in a cluster...

We have a complex custom in-house solution for this with seam 2 and jEE5/WebSphere 7 (based on distributed map in WAS) and we are waiting for EJB3.1 and WAS v8 to have an elegant solution for this and we hope that seam 3 will have a solution also