Re: [webbeans-dev] Fwd: static producers

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: