[cdi-dev] Would @PostActivate, @PrePassivate and @Remove make sense in JSR 250 ?

[Romain Manni-Bucau]

Issue with XActivate is nothing is specified on what does mean activate
(think to a cluster)
Le 28 déc. 2014 13:52, "John D. Ament" <john.d.ament at gmail.com> a écrit :

> PostActivate/PrePassivate are only applicable to EJBs (as of now).  EJBs
> work off of a pool of objects and these life cycle methods are typically
> used (from the use cases I've dealt with them) to initiate or destroy some
> end user data for the context in which they are used.
>
> I think you might be thinking of PostConstruct/PreDestroy which match to
> the CDI/ManagedBean paradigm better.  There's no pool of these objects
> around, they simply get created and destroyed when done.  For each of the
> scopes you mentioned, I would use a PostConstruct/PreDestroy method to do
> the same thing.
>
> John
>
> On Sun Dec 28 2014 at 7:39:14 AM Antonio Goncalves <
> antonio.goncalves at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was playing with @SessionScoped beans... and wondered if @PostActivate,
>> @PrePassivate and @Remove would make sense in JSR 250 ?
>>
>> At the moment these annotations belong to the javax.ejb package and are
>> only used in @Stateful EJBs. With CDI scopes, we end up with a few
>> "stateful" scopes (@SessionScoped, but also @ConversationScoped,
>> @ViewScoped...) so why not having the same functionality in CDI ?
>> @PreDestroy and @PostConstruct are already part of JSR 250. So why not
>> having @PostActivate and @PrePassivate as well so they could be used in
>> every bean ?
>>
>> BTW, while I was playing with @SessionScoped beans, I asked Antoine to
>> show me how to remove a bean from the session. It's only a few lines of
>> code, but again, why not having a @Remove annotation that does that (the
>> exact same one of javax.ejb.Remove) ?
>>
>> To summarize, why not taking some of those stateful EJB concerns back to
>> JSR 250 so they could be used anywhere ?
>>
>> Any thoughts ?
>>
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