[webbeans-dev] Re: Instead of deployment types

Folks, I spent a bunch of time with Bill Shannon and Roberto today. The results of these discussion were: Inter-module dependencies ===================== We shouldn't introduce any special module-level dependency mechanism or module-private dependencies (such as my proposal for @Exported beans). We should wait for the Java Module System for that kind of thing. Instead we'll say that an injection point of a class X can resolve to a bean Y only when the Java EE spec requires that the bean class Y is visible to X (section 8.3 of the spec). So, for example, a bean in ejb-jar A is not available for injection into a bean in another ejb-jar B unless A declares a dependency to B in manifest.mf. This solution isn't quite as powerful as module-private dependencies, but it solves the cases I raised earlier today, and we'll get something more powerful when the Java Module System arrives.