[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (CDI-4) Need a way to provide ordering for Event observers (@Observes)

[Jason Porter (JIRA)]

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Jason Porter commented on CDI-4:
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bq. Simply having say, a framework like Forge implement comparators, doesn't help readability of the model at all. In fact, it sort of suffers from the same problem that putting the configuration in an XML file suffers from: you can't get any sense of the ordering just by looking at any given observer.

Yeah, that is one of the side effects of this idea. Seems the two issues we'll be dealing with are 
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> Need a way to provide ordering for Event observers (@Observes)
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>
>                 Key: CDI-4
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-4
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Events, Portable Extensions
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Lincoln Baxter III
>            Assignee: Mike Brock
>             Fix For: TBD
>
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> There needs to be a way to specify some kind of ordering for Event observers. 
> Understandably, this is somewhat counter-intuitive to the general concept of observing an event, but there is going to be need for this in an upcoming JBoss project. While it can be done manually, it might be nice to have a built-in API.

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