> 3.2.5.1 Declaring a Web Beans constructor > If a simple Web Bean defined using annotations does not explicitly declare > a constructor using @Initializer, the constructor that accepts no parameters > is the Web Bean constructor. It is possible to call constructors by reflection on inner classes, but it requires you to rely on the (AFAIK unspecified) behaviour that the inner class instance holds a reference to it's parent instance in the "this$<x>" field, where x = (level-of-nesting - 1) WDYT?

Just that invoking inner class constructors via reflection is a bit like black magic - is this definitely something we want to do... -- Pete Muir http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete On 29 Oct 2008, at 15:58, "Gavin King" <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >>> 3.2.5.1 Declaring a Web Beans constructor >> >> >>> If a simple Web Bean defined using annotations does not explicitly >>> declare >>> a constructor using @Initializer, the constructor that accepts no >>> parameters >>> is the Web Bean constructor. >> >> >> It is possible to call constructors by reflection on inner classes, but >> it >> requires you to rely on the (AFAIK unspecified) behaviour that the inner >> class instance holds a reference to it's parent instance in the >> "this$<x>" >> field, where >> >> x = (level-of-nesting - 1) >> >> WDYT? > > I don't understand what you're suggesting here, Pete. > > > -- > Gavin King > gavin.king(a)gmail.com > http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin > http://hibernate.org > http://seamframework.org _______________________________________________ webbeans-dev mailing list webbeans-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/webbeans-dev

No, I got confused and swapped the words static and non-static when I read the spec. Sorry. -- Pete Muir http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete On 29 Oct 2008, at 17:14, "Gavin King" <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > Are you sure this is true of *static* inner classes? > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:08 AM, <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >> Just that invoking inner class constructors via reflection is a bit like >> black magic - is this definitely something we want to do... >> >> -- >> Pete Muir >> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete >> >> On 29 Oct 2008, at 15:58, "Gavin King" <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>>>> 3.2.5.1 Declaring a Web Beans constructor >>>> >>>> >>>>> If a simple Web Bean defined using annotations does not explicitly >>>>> declare >>>>> a constructor using @Initializer, the constructor that accepts no >>>>> parameters >>>>> is the Web Bean constructor. >>>> >>>> >>>> It is possible to call constructors by reflection on inner classes, but >>>> it >>>> requires you to rely on the (AFAIK unspecified) behaviour that the >>>> inner >>>> class instance holds a reference to it's parent instance in the >>>> "this$<x>" >>>> field, where >>>> >>>> x = (level-of-nesting - 1) >>>> >>>> WDYT? >>> >>> I don't understand what you're suggesting here, Pete. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Gavin King >>> gavin.king(a)gmail.com >>> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin >>> http://hibernate.org >>> http://seamframework.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webbeans-dev mailing list >> webbeans-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/webbeans-dev >> > > > > -- > Gavin King > gavin.king(a)gmail.com > http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin > http://hibernate.org > http://seamframework.org