[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-280) clarify usage of 'bean' term usage in the spec

[Antoine Sabot-Durand (JIRA)]

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Antoine Sabot-Durand commented on CDI-280:
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[~struberg],  as I said before I'm not fan of the "contextual" name and I prefer "bean" (Bean instance, Bean Reference) since it's the usage in technical post and books on CDI and other IoC frameworks. My goal here is to have the spec read by end users as well as implementors. IMO, There's enough complex concepts to catch in the spec (remember the discussion on Observer Resolution) to add new hermetic terms were convention brought ones. There are 100% chance that usage keep the simpler one and that the spec would be a bit harder to be read.

I'm afraid we won't come on an agreement on time to reprocess all these terms in the Maintenance Release time frame
                
> clarify usage of 'bean' term usage in the spec
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CDI-280
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-280
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Clarification
>            Reporter: Mark Struberg
>            Assignee: Antoine Sabot-Durand
>              Labels: CDI_api_chge, CDI_spec_chge, Ready_to_fix
>             Fix For: 1.2 Proposed
>
>
> We should go to the spec and look up all 'bean' words as they are 5 different meaning the word 'bean' is used for
> * The Bean<T> extends Contextual<T>. Should be referred as 'Bean' or 'CDI Bean'
> * The class which gets scanned. Should be referred as 'Bean Class' to
> * The instance stored in the context. Should be referred to as 'Contextual Instance'
> * The proxy for a Contextual Instance should be referred to as 'Contextual Reference'
> * The type of an injection point should be referred to as 'InjectionPoint Type'

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