[cdi-dev] ProcessAnnotatedType question related to Seam-Config

Jozef Hartinger jharting at redhat.com
Fri Oct 14 07:57:41 EDT 2011


The fact that you can have multiple AnnotatedTypes per Java type is 
clarified in CDI-58.


On 10/14/2011 12:52 PM, Mark Struberg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Currently tracking down why seam-config sometimes does not work work OWB.
>
> Seems that the issue is that OWB and Weld does tread AnnotatedTypes registered with BeforeBeanDiscovery in a different way.
>
> Assume we have the following class in a BDA:
>
> @RequestScoped
>
> public class Doodings {
> ...
> }
>
> and you have a seam-beans.xml config  for it too
>
> Then seam-xml will add an AnnotatedType for it in @Observes BeforeBeanDiscovery. So far so good.
>
> Later in the class scanning, when scanning Coodings.class, we (Apache OpenWebBeans) recognizes that the class already has a prepared AnnotatedType and use that for the system event. Apparently Weld does things different and creates a fresh AnnotatedType purely based on the native class!
> That's the reason why seam-config in weld has to veto the freshly scanned type to prevent double existence of Bean<Doodings>, and in OWB this hack causes a problem...
>
> I think there is room for improvement in the specification of AnnotatedTypes in the CDI spec ...
>
> The behaviour must get clarified imo, wdyt?
>
> LieGrue,
> strub
>
>
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