Re: [webbeans-dev] Questions & clarifications

No, I got confused and swapped the words static and non-static when I read the spec. Sorry. -- Pete Muir http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete On 29 Oct 2008, at 17:14, "Gavin King" <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > Are you sure this is true of *static* inner classes? > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:08 AM, <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >> Just that invoking inner class constructors via reflection is a bit like >> black magic - is this definitely something we want to do... >> >> -- >> Pete Muir >> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete >> >> On 29 Oct 2008, at 15:58, "Gavin King" <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>>>> 3.2.5.1 Declaring a Web Beans constructor >>>> >>>> >>>>> If a simple Web Bean defined using annotations does not explicitly >>>>> declare >>>>> a constructor using @Initializer, the constructor that accepts no >>>>> parameters >>>>> is the Web Bean constructor. >>>> >>>> >>>> It is possible to call constructors by reflection on inner classes, but >>>> it >>>> requires you to rely on the (AFAIK unspecified) behaviour that the >>>> inner >>>> class instance holds a reference to it's parent instance in the >>>> "this$<x>" >>>> field, where >>>> >>>> x = (level-of-nesting - 1) >>>> >>>> WDYT? >>> >>> I don't understand what you're suggesting here, Pete. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >> > > > > -- > Gavin King > gavin.king(a)gmail.com > http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin > http://hibernate.org > http://seamframework.org