[webbeans-dev] Re: suggestion for Web Beans regarding @Named

Perhaps a better idea is some archive-level setting to change the behavior of @Named. Not sure... On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Gavin King <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > Yeah, I hate it, but it probably does make sense. > > Send the proposal to the web beans group, I suppose. > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> Gavin, >> >> I have a suggestion for Web Beans regarding the convention used by the >> @Named annotation. The nice part about this annotation is that it >> doesn't require the use of a string value to create a name that maps >> to the class name. In ~80% of cases, that is what people would do >> anyway. However, for framework builders, I can see them wanting to >> create fully-qualified names like in Seam to avoid naming conflicts. >> Would it be reasonable to propose adding an attribute to the @Named >> annotation that indicates the Java package should be prepended to the >> calculated name? >> >> @Named(qualified = true) >> >> That would avoid people slipping into the non-type safe pattern of: >> >> @Named("org.jboss.seam.core.expressions") >> >> -Dan >> >> -- >> Dan Allen >> Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action >> >> http://mojavelinux.com >> http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction >> >> NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a daily >> basis, personal or other work matters can sometimes keep me away >> from my email. If you contact me, but don't hear back for more than a week, >> it is very likely that I am excessively backlogged or the message was >> caught in the spam filters. Please don't hesitate to resend a message if >> you feel that it did not reach my attention. >> > > > > -- > 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