Hi Martin,

For some reason, a proxied bean's equals cannot be called. Are you aware of this problem? Although the spec says:

The behavior of all methods declared by java.lang.Object, except for toString(), is
undefined for a client proxy. Portable applications should not invoke any method declared by
java.lang.Object, except for toString(), on a client proxy.

I thought the overridden equals is different from the methods defined by Object class and it should be invoked.

Please find attached a very simple test case that shows a .equals() method not being invoked on a bean proxied by Weld.


In a debugger one can see that GenericBean.equals() is not invoked within the Servlet:

        protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
                PrintWriter pw = response.getWriter();
                pw.println ("Hello");
                if (gb.equals(new GenericBean(10))) {    // GenericBean.equals() is not invoked; test prints 'fail'
                        pw.println("pass");
                } else {
                        pw.println ("fail");
                }
        }

The .war contains source and object code. As you can see there's only two classes.

Many thanks,
Emily
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