[cdi-dev] Minutes/Notes from CDI EG meeting (hangout) on 13th August

[Pete Muir]

On 15 Aug 2012, at 12:10, Pete Muir wrote:

> Visibility of container invoked methods
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> Currently the CDI specification does not limit the visibility of container invoked methods (observers, producers, initializers). We propose that this should be limited to non-private methods, as otherwise we run into extensive incompatibles with other specs such as EJB, and VMs (such as IBM JDK). Furthermore, having the container invoke private methods deliberately breaks the intended purpose of visibility in Java.
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> Action: Pete to propose change to spec

The pull req is https://github.com/jboss/cdi/pull/61 - please review