[webbeans-dev] Fwd: static producers

Hi Chris. What I'm thinking is simply to not define/support specialization for static producers. I think that's fine.... Do you see a problem with that? On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Chris Dempsey <cdallas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi all. I've been a lurker on the list for a while and have been reading > and studying the spec like a mad man. If I go off the rails here feel free > to let me know. :) > > The only thing I can think of as a possible issue with this is Web Bean > specialization? Static methods cannot be overridden and only hidden by > sub-classes and the declared type (any actual instance is ignored) is used > to resolve which static method is called. If you had a static > Foo#producerMethod and a specialization of a static MockFoo#producerMethod > Web Beans would have to know to call MockFoo.producerMethod and couldn't > rely on Foo.producerMethod to resolve polymorphically to the specialized > producer method. > > I don't think it would be a problem that couldn't be overcome but it would > seem to complicate the specialization rules quite a bit. > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Gavin King <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Gavin King <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; >> Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:50 PM >> Subject: static producers >> To: Java Community Process JSR #299 Expert List <JSR-299-EG(a)jcp.org&gt; >> >> >> Question: >> >> should we allow producer methods and fields to be declared "static"? >> >> This would mean that the Web Bean manager does not need to instantiate >> an instance of the Web Bean that declares the producer method/field >> when invoking the method/field. >> >> I can't think of a good reason why *not*... >> >> Furthermore, should we allow static observer and disposal methods? >> Again, I can't quite think of a reason why *not*... >> >> -- >> Gavin King >> gavin.king(a)gmail.com >> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin >> http://hibernate.org >> http://seamframework.org >> >> >> >> -- >> Gavin King >> gavin.king(a)gmail.com >> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin >> http://hibernate.org >> http://seamframework.org >> _______________________________________________ >> webbeans-dev mailing list >> webbeans-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/webbeans-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > webbeans-dev mailing list > webbeans-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/webbeans-dev > > -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin http://hibernate.org http://seamframework.org