[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (CDI-117) Add BeanManager to a ServletContext attribute

[Cloves Almeida (JIRA)]

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Cloves Almeida commented on CDI-117:
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This is very useful for non-servlet environment (plain JavaSE, or frameworks like Play! that does not use Servlet).

Wouldn't it be better if the spec specified a "BeanManagerFactory" factory class that could return the proper BeanManager regardless of environment? Implementation would check JNDI, then Servlet Context, then fallback on singleton or custom lookup service.

CDI is just too useful to be constrained on JEE/Servlet only environments.

> Add BeanManager to a ServletContext attribute
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CDI-117
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-117
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Java EE integration
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: Christian Kaltepoth
>            Priority: Minor
>
> CDI 1.0 defines a JNDI lookup as the standard way to obtain the BeanManager for resources not managed by the CDI environment. However in a servlet environment it would be much easier to get the BeanManager from a standardized servlet context attribute. This would be also a major simplification in environments that don't support JNDI (for example GAE) or that don't allow to use the standard JNDI name for the BeanManager (for example Apache Tomcat).
> This topic was already discussed on weld-dev about a year ago [1]. Weld 1.0 already supports this [2] and OpenWebBeans also added this feature [3]. Unfortunately Weld 1.1 changed the attribute to a Weld-specific name in [4] which currently leads to much confusion [5].
> As both of the major CDI implementations support this feature I think it should finally be put into the spec.
> [1] http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/weld-dev/2010-March/002359.html
> [2] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WELD-202
> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OWB-360
> [4] https://jira.jboss.org/browse/WELD-679
> [5] http://seamframework.org/Community/GettingBeanManagerFromServletContextWithWeld11

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