[cdi-dev] clarification regarding extensions in non-bean archives

[Pete Muir]

Hi Dan

JSR-299 is no longer in existence, as the spec is now complete. We will be filing a new JSR for CDI 1.1. If you want to discuss this, mail cdi-dev at lists.jboss.org, or file an issue in the CDI issue tracker on jboss.org.

Specifically regarding your points, 

1) this was recognised as a bug in GlassFish, and has been fixed accordingly. I would suggest raising a CDI issue and  pointing out that there has been confusion about this, and it would be helpful if the spec explicitly stated that the it is referring to the JAR file spec, and that service providers do not need to be placed in bean archives.

2) this also sounds like a GlassFish bug, so I don't think mailing the EG is appropriate, instead you should raise an GLASSFISH issue. This is well defined at the moment, and is simply a hard area to get right, hence why we are finding bugs. Short of actually enforcing an impl on people there is little I think we can do to improve this.

Pete

On 17 Jan 2011, at 18:04, Dan Allen wrote:

> I attempted to send this message to jsr299-comments at jcp.org, but it was rejected. Can you forward it on if necessary?
> 
> -Dan
> 
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 13:00, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
> JSR-299 EG,
> 
> For a while now, the Seam 3 project has been working to solve a portability issue that prevents modules (i.e., extensions) from running on GlassFish (3.0 and 3.1) [1]. After much research, we've determined that this isn't a problem that we have much control over. It's clear that there is an inconsistency in the way the JSR-299 specification is being interpreted with regard to extension loading.
> 
> The question is this. Does an extension have to be in an bean archive in order to be loaded?
> 
> Section 11.5 states:
> 
> "An extension is a service provider of the service javax.enterprise.inject.spi.Extension declared in META-INF/services."
> 
> If one assumes that "service provider" refers to the term defined in the jar specification [2], then one would conclude that an extension does not have to be in a bean archive to be recognized (these are orthogonal concerns). However, the Java EE 6 reference implementation (GlassFish) does not honor this interpretation prior to version 3.1-b37, as indicated by [3].
> 
> Even with the recent fix to the reference implementation, there is a secondary interpretation problem:
> 
> Can an extension register a bean programmatically for a class that resides in another non-bean archive?
> 
> This question requires a short example.
> 
> Assume one archive, a.jar, has the following contents:
> 
> org/opentck/javaee/cdi/spi/beforebeandiscovery/BeanClassToRegister.class
> 
> A second archive, b.jar, has the following contents:
> 
> org/opentck/javaee/cdi/spi/beforebeandiscovery/AnotherBeanClassToRegister.class
> org/opentck/javaee/cdi/spi/beforebeandiscovery/AnotherManualBeanRegistrationExtension.class
> org/opentck/javaee/cdi/spi/beforebeandiscovery/ManualBeanRegistrationExtension.class
> META-INF/services/javax.enterprise.inject.spi.Extension
> 
> AnotherBeanClassToRegister has an injection point of type BeanClassToRegister:
> 
> public class AnotherBeanClassToRegister {
>    @Inject
>    private BeanClassToRegister collaborator;
> }
> 
> BeanClassToRegister and AnotherBeanClassToRegister are added as beans programmatically in respective extensions listed in the service provider descriptor:
> 
> public class ManualBeanRegistrationExtension implements Extension {
>    public void registerBeans(@Observes BeforeBeanDiscovery event, BeanManager bm) {
>       event.addAnnotatedType(bm.createAnnotatedType(BeanClassToRegister.class));
>    }
> }
> 
> public class AnotherManualBeanRegistrationExtension implements Extension {
>    public void registerBeans(@Observes BeforeBeanDiscovery event, BeanManager bm) {
>       event.addAnnotatedType(bm.createAnnotatedType(AnotherBeanClassToRegister.class));
>    }
> }
> 
> The two libraries, a.jar and b.jar are bundled in a web archive, test.war
> 
> WEB-INF/lib/a.jar
> WEB-INF/lib/b.jar
> WEB-INF/beans.xml
> 
> Deploying this archive to the reference implementation fails with an error message that the injection point from above cannot be satisfied. Clearly there is a visibility problem across bean archives in this case.
> 
> Adding META-INF/beans.xml to a.jar and removing the ManualBeanRegistrationExtension from b.jar resolves the issue in the reference implementation.
> 
> The fact that there is so much discussion around this issue has led me to the conclusion that it needs to be addressed at the specification level.
> 
> These scenarios have been prepared using Open TCK tests (based on Arquillian). [4]
> 
> -Dan
> 
> p.s. Thanks to Jason Porter for helping track down this issue and drafting the initial the Open TCK tests.
> 
> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/SOLDER-47
> [2] http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html#Service%20Provider
> [3] http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-14808
> [4] https://github.com/opentck/javaee_cdi/tree/master/src/test/java/org/opentck/javaee/cdi/spi/beforebeandiscovery
> 
> -- 
> Dan Allen
> Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan Allen
> Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action
> Registered Linux User #231597
> 
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> http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction
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