[cdi-dev] Time to start working on CDI lite

Romain Manni-Bucau rmannibucau at gmail.com
Sun Aug 30 15:11:24 EDT 2015


2015-08-30 20:29 GMT+02:00 Werner Keil <werner.keil at gmail.com>:

> As there is well-established event handling on the SE and ME side, in most
> cases based on java.util.EventObject, I could imagine CDI events being
> either outside a "lite" profile or at least optional, should we consider
> optionality.
>
>
not sure I agree, SE has an event hierarchy but its listener model is not
as usable as CDI most of the time because of the register side


> Werner
>
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>> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:09:41 +0200
>> From: Antonio Goncalves <antonio.goncalves at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [cdi-dev] Time to start working on CDI lite
>> To: Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibucau at gmail.com>
>> Cc: cdi-dev <cdi-dev at lists.jboss.org>
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>> For me, a Light version of CDI is clearly the features number. That's why
>> I
>> don't see events in it.
>>
>> For me, a CDI Lite would just focus on DI. If CDI has @Produces and Spring
>> has @Bean, then it's because 330 lakes this functionality.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau <
>> rmannibucau at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Lite can have several definition, let's try to list them up if it can
>> help:
>> >
>> > - binary size: for me until 3M for an app it is "Lite"
>> > - features number: the whole IoC set of feature is light since you
>> almost
>> > always need it, it means you can do lighter but it wouldnt be used -
>> check
>> > spring, who uses only spring-ioc and not context or more?
>> > - features complexity: sure we are not light here but supporting scopes
>> > already breaks "Lite-ness" IMO so not a real issue
>> >
>> > So my view is CDI "SE" is light enough - as a spec and spec can't affect
>> > implementations so seems the fight is not on the right side to me.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> > 2015-08-30 15:57 GMT+02:00 Antonio Goncalves <
>> antonio.goncalves at gmail.com>
>> > :
>> >
>> >> It's funny, I feel I'm in Rod Johnson shoes back in Java EE 6 where he
>> >> forked 330 because he found CDI was doing too much  ;o)
>> >>
>> >> For me, "CDI Lite" was just basic dependency injection. The fact that
>> CDI
>> >> can now run on SE (like JPA....), is good... but for me it has nothing
>> to
>> >> do with Light : it's the entire thing that can bootstrap in SE. Good.
>> >>
>> >> So what is Lite for you guys ?
>> >>
>> >> Antonio
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau <
>> >> rmannibucau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> 2015-08-30 15:22 GMT+02:00 John D. Ament <john.d.ament at gmail.com>:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Personally, I'm not in favor of a slimmed down runtime.  It was tried
>> >>>> with EJB, but never implemented properly (most implementations that
>> support
>> >>>> EJB-lite actually support the entire thing, except for deprecated
>> stuff).
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>> +1, most of CDI is basic and quickly any light version will miss
>> events
>> >>> or other thing - in particular in maintaining micro services from
>> >>> experience. Size of an implementation can easily be < 1M so not sure
>> it
>> >>> would bring anything. Only important point is what Antoine started to
>> do ie
>> >>> ensuring EE and SE parts are clearly identified and split in the spec.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> I think if we define SE properly we won't have a need for this.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> John
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 8:07 AM Antonio Goncalves <
>> >>>> antonio.goncalves at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> @Antoine, so which content do you see in CDI Lite ? Are you sure
>> about
>> >>>>> events ?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I'm in favor of a "fatter" 330 that would have :
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>    - @Inject : already there
>> >>>>>    - @Qualifier : already there
>> >>>>>    -
>> >>>>> *Producers and disposers *
>> >>>>>    -
>> >>>>> *Programatic lookup *
>> >>>>>    - *Java SE Bootstrap*
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> When you say "*The goal here is not to propose a new EE profile but
>> a
>> >>>>> subspec*", 330 could already be seen as a subspec. If you put events
>> >>>>> apparts, what would be missing in this list in your point of view ?
>> And
>> >>>>> what obstacles do you see in archieving this ?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> To boostrap CDI we have a CDIProvider, why not having an
>> >>>>> InjectionProvider just to bootstrap 330 (then, CDIProvider could
>> extend
>> >>>>> InjectionProvider, so it bootstraps the all thing) ?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Antonio
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Antoine Sabot-Durand <
>> >>>>> antoine at sabot-durand.net> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> Yes Arjan, I think it's the first reason. We really should work
>> with
>> >>>>>> them to understand what should be added to CDI 2.0 to have it as a
>> first
>> >>>>>> citizen DI in their spec.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Le sam. 29 ao?t 2015 ? 23:15, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms at gmail.com>
>> a
>> >>>>>> ?crit :
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Antonio Goncalves
>> >>>>>>> <antonio.goncalves at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>> > I remember talking with the JAX-RS guys (Java EE), years ago
>> (back
>> >>>>>>> in EE6),
>> >>>>>>> > and their answer for not adopting CDI was "too heavy".
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> I can't find an exact reference anymore, but I somewhat remember
>> that
>> >>>>>>> one of the reasons was also simply that CDI as a general solution
>> >>>>>>> finished late in Java EE 6, while JAX-RS finished earlier and had
>> all
>> >>>>>>> the work for their own DI solution already done.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> --
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