[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (CDI-30) An API for managing built in contexts

Mon May 2 05:50:18 EDT 2011

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Mark Struberg commented on CDI-30:
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hmm not sure if we really should add this. 

This was certainly a good thing back at the time when we discussed this. But from trying to use CDI's own  @ConversationScoped in a real world JSF project I must say - it doesn't work out. Reason is that our CDI Conversation is lazy-starting which is way too late for JSF applications. Because what happens if you have a mandatory field not set or any other JSR-303 or JSF validation issue? In this case your action - which would make the conversation long-running - just doesn't get invoked! So you end up with a standard @RequestScoped behaviour and your bean will over and over get created again with each view hit.

Also: CDI conversations doesn't prevent opening an action link in a new window or tab, which makes them unusable for multi windowed applications.

I guess the same reasons apply why CODI introduced an own ConversationScoped and why Seam3 also introduced an own one, right?

So, since the CDI @ConversationScoped is kind of naturally restricted, I'm not sure if it's really worth adding a complex management SPI for it.

> An API for managing built in contexts
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>
>                 Key: CDI-30
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-30
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Contexts
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: Nicklas Karlsson
>             Fix For: 1.1 (Proposed)
>
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> Add management API for built in contexts allowing them to be reused as needed.

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