Yeah, I'm seeing this as a WebBeans extension. An extension, of course, would work with any core implementation, thus safe for us to use and depend on in Seam. Correct me if I'm wrong Gavin.

...because obviously we need this feature to be able to offer something like a configurable persistence unit loader or managed persistence context.

-Dan

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Gavin King <gavin.king@gmail.com> wrote:
   private int x = 1; :-)

But also the SPI will let you implement this in a portable fashion.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Shane Bryzak <shane.bryzak@jboss.com> wrote:
> With most of the XML stuff now removed, how do we configure initial bean
> field values? (previously in PRD2 section 9.5.5 Field initial value
> declarations)
>
> Gavin King wrote:
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Gavin King <gavin.king@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:00 PM
>> Subject: Today's rev of the spec
>> To: Java Community Process JSR #299 Expert List <JSR-299-EG@jcp.org>
>>
>>
>> OK, here's the latest.
>>
>> Changes:
>>
>> * more examples in ch1
>> * raw types (this is still under discussion in the other thread)
>> * fixes for the error relating to typecasting contextual references
>> * void return types on BeanManager
>>
>> Enjoy.
>>
>> --
>> Gavin King
>> gavin.king@gmail.com
>> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin
>> http://hibernate.org
>> http://seamframework.org
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>>
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