[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Reopened: (JBSEAM-4408) Unable to easily replace asynchronous dispatchers because of package-private methods

Unable to easily replace asynchronous dispatchers because of package-private methods ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: JBSEAM-4408 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-4408 Project: Seam Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Async Affects Versions: 2.1.1.GA, 2.1.2.CR1, 2.1.2.CR2, 2.1.2.GA, 2.2.0.CR1, 2.2.0.GA Reporter: Reid Pinchback Assignee: Norman Richards Fix For: 2.2.1.CR1 One of the benefits of Seam is that you can install your open components to replace the built-in ones provided by Seam. I was attempting to replace the ThreadPoolDispatcher, when I encountered something that maybe should change in the Schedule and TimerSchedule API. Instances of those classes can be created, but the values in them cannot be accessed because their accessors are package-private. For example: public class Schedule implements Serializable { private Long duration; ... Long getDuration() { return duration; } ... } Since the member variables are private, you can't create subclasses of Schedule or TimerSchedule to get at them, and because the accessors are package-private, you can't get at them that way. Similarly any subclass of AbstractDispatcher in a different package can't access those values for determining the appropriate values for scheduled futures. The only work-arounds at present are pretty grungy - either creating a subclass of TimerSchedule that keeps shadow copies of the member variables, or placing the application-specific dispatcher code in a package whose name mimics the Seam package structure. Neither is a show-stopper, but not really a good solution for a framework that is intentionally attempting to make itself extensible. I'd recommend making the Schedule and TimerSchedule accessors public.