[cdi-dev] Regarding CDI-280 and beans terminology

[Martin Kouba]

Dne 3.3.2014 17:20, Antoine Sabot-Durand napsal(a):
> Hi all,
> 
> I really think we should work for terminology simplification but I
> wonder if it’s realistic in our timeframe.  According to me the easy
> part is :
> 
>  - « Bean Class »  for the class that gets Scanned : *Bean Class*
> (_quite obvious_)
>  - « Bean Metadata for Bean<T> : *Bean Metadata* using « Bean » here is
> confusing)
>  - « Required Type » for the type of injection type
>  - «  Session Bean »  for EJB bean
> 
> Now the more complex part is for the biggest one. From my understanding
> we have 2 concept with at least 3 different names :
> 
> - Contextual Instance = Bean Instance = Bean
> - Contextual Reference = Client Proxy = Bean Reference

But contextual instance != bean instance as Contextual<T> != Bean<T>, right?

> 
> I I’m not wrong on this classification, we should really choose an
> official name for these 2  concepts
> 
> My personal choice would be « Bean Instance » and «  Bean Reference »
> with perhaps a link to contextual names in chapter 6.
> 
> The term « Bean » could be reserved to mean one to the other when
> difference is not relevant…
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
>  
> Antoine Sabot-Durand
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