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

[Antoine Sabot-Durand]

Le 3 mars 2014 à 17:39, Martin Kouba <mkouba at redhat.com> a écrit :

> 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?


Good question but I think that Contextual<T> is called "Instance of contextual" in the Spec. But not clear. when reading 6.5.2 [1] a lot of things are mixed up

[1] http://docs.jboss.org/cdi/spec/1.1/cdi-spec.html#contextual_instance

> 
>> 
>> 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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