[cdi-dev] Fw: Answer from EL spec lead: no, "." is not valid in an EL name.

[Mark Struberg]

C'mon Jozef, your approach is NOT portable. This will trash all other javax ELResolvers. You fix a broken CDI paragraph by utterly and finally breaking another framework. That's just no solution.

LieGrue,
strub




----- Original Message -----
> From: Jozef Hartinger <jharting at redhat.com>
> To: Mark Struberg <struberg at yahoo.de>; Cdi-dev <cdi-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Cc: Edward Burns <edward.burns at oracle.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 January 2015, 10:54
> Subject: Re: [cdi-dev] Fw: Answer from EL spec lead: no, "." is not valid in an EL name.
> 
> I think further action is needed on this. Now that it has been confirmed 
> that "javax.enterprise.context.conversation" itself is not a valid EL 
> name we should either:
> 
> A) Require all CDI implementations to adapt the property-based approach 
> which allows this to be implemented portably (as Weld does)
> B) Declare publicly that although the CDI spec declares the given name, 
> it is a bug and applications should not use the name. (What about 
> compatibility with existing applications?)
> 
> Jozef
> 
> 
> On 01/08/2015 09:27 AM, Mark Struberg wrote:
>>  Dear CDI fellows!
>> 
>>  I've received an answer regarding our EL question from the EL Spec 
> Lead.
>> 
>>  Ed, thanks for helping us!
>> 
>> 
>>  LieGrue,
>>  strub
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>  On Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 23:14, Edward Burns 
> <edward.burns at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>  Hello Mark,
>>>  To close this out, no, "." is not valid in an EL name.  An EL 
> name
>>>  must
>>>  be a java identifier.  I'm told this was discussed by Pete a long 
> time
>>>  ago in the EL 3.0 EG.
>>> 
>>>  Ed
>>> 
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