[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-162) Support Extended Persistence Contexts in Managed beans

[Arne Limburg (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-162?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12719392#comment-12719392 ] 

Arne Limburg commented on CDI-162:
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Scott, the problem from the CDI perspective is, that the type of the EntityManager-field is not serializable. Consider the following example:
{code}
@Stateful
public class MyStatefulEjb {

  @Produces
  @SessionScoped
  @PersistenceContext(type = EXTENDED)
  private EntityManager em;
}
{code}
>From an EJB perspective this would be perfectly ok and the bean could even be passivated, if the EntityManager is serializable and all entities are.
But a CDI-Container would reject this declaration since @SessionScoped is a passivation-capable scope and the EntityManager-interface does not extend Serializable.

>From a CDI perspective: What would happen, if we would relax this check? Every CDI-bean that has a field like
{code}
  @Inject
  private EntityManager em;
{code}
would get a contextual reference (a proxy) of an EntityManager. The EJB could be passivated completely independent of the CDI-bean. And if the CDI-bean would access the EntityManager, the EJB would be activated again...

Problems arise, when the CDI-bean holds a reference to an entity of the EntityManager. This Entity would be detached after the passivation and activation of the EJB. So the CDI-bean could never know if the entity is managed or detached, because it would depend on whether the EJB was passivated or not...
I don't know how to solve this...
                
> Support Extended Persistence Contexts in Managed beans
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CDI-162
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-162
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Tracker
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: Pete Muir
>             Fix For: 1.1 (Proposed)
>
>


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