Correct me if I'm wrong, but static producer methods wouldn't be able to be @Specialized, right?

Maybe that's fine.

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: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gavin King <gavin(a)hibernate.org&gt; > Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:50 PM > Subject: static producers > To: Java Community Process JSR #299 Expert List <JSR-299-EG(a)jcp.org&gt; > > > Question: > > should we allow producer methods and fields to be declared "static"? > > This would mean that the Web Bean manager does not need to instantiate > an instance of the Web Bean that declares the producer method/field > when invoking the method/field. > > I can't think of a good reason why *not*... > > Furthermore, should we allow static observer and disposal methods? > Again, I can't quite think of a reason why *not*... > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > webbeans-dev mailing list > webbeans-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/webbeans-dev _______________________________________________ webbeans-dev mailing list webbeans-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/webbeans-dev