[cdi-dev] Time to start working on CDI lite
Martin Kouba
mkouba at redhat.com
Wed Sep 2 06:18:35 EDT 2015
Dne 31.8.2015 v 10:28 Antonio Goncalves napsal(a):
> The way @Inject works is not specified in 330, and it's better to leave
> it like this, otherwise we will loose Spring and Guice as implementations.
Yes, it's not. I'm afraid I'm lost in translation then. I will have to
read the thread again ;-)
>
> Antonio
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Martin Kouba <mkouba at redhat.com
> <mailto:mkouba at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> Dne 31.8.2015 v 09:57 Antonio Goncalves napsal(a):
>
> I don't see Events in a "Lite" version because the other DI
> frameworks
> don't use them. A "fatter" 330 with producers, programmatic
> lookup and
> bootstrap, could be "easily" implemented by Spring, Guice... If
> we leave
> events in a Lite version, then it won't be the case, and Weld
> and OWB
> will be the only two implementations.
>
> For me, a Lite version would just be about DI. If Weld uses events
> internally to archieve basic DI, well, it's just an implementation
> decision, not a spec. I would not even try to standardize the way
> @Inject works (like Romain said, @Inject doesn't work the same
> in Weld
> or Spring), let's leave it like this.
>
>
> If you don't standardize how @Inject works then what's the purpose
> of having something like CDI Lite and many implementations which
> work differently? A user of implementation "A" will not be able to
> switch to implementation "B" easily. And that's one of the most
> important benefits of standardization...
>
> If you take back Antoine sentence
>
> "/This would allow using CDI in constrained environment like
> mobile or
> embedded devices/", then I don't think events would fit here.
>
> Antonio
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Mark Struberg
> <struberg at yahoo.de <mailto:struberg at yahoo.de>
> <mailto:struberg at yahoo.de <mailto:struberg at yahoo.de>>> wrote:
>
> > For me, a Light version of CDI is clearly the features
> number. That's why I don't see events in it.
>
> We did discuss this last year on the f2f meeting. The
> problem lies
> within our Extension mechanism. Without events you also
> need to drop
> the Extension mechanism. And to be honest, this is THE
> major hit in
> all CDI…
> Sorry to be the bad guy busting all those ideas. I really
> don’t want
> to, but better now than too late down the road ;)
>
> It’s really tricky as many features are heavily based on
> each other.
> E.g. by removing scanning you could get rid of
> javassist/asm/etc ?
> nope, we also have our class proxies which need bytecode
> tinkering.
> So remove interceptors and decorators too? Well yea, but we
> still
> have normalscoping -> what is left? basically spring
> prototype and
> singleton. Hmm. that’s not that much compared to full CDI.
> And all
> that for only 200kByte?
> (Btw we also discussed generating the bytecode classes at build
> time, but then we still miss the dynamics we get from
> Extensions,
> e.g. PAT adding an interceptor annotation)
> Just to give you a rough idea how this all works together
> when it
> comes to implementation details…
> Please feel free to ask Jozef and me for further infos on
> ‚dependencies‘.
>
> LieGrue,
> strub
>
>
> > Am 30.08.2015 um 18:09 schrieb Antonio Goncalves
> <antonio.goncalves at gmail.com
> <mailto:antonio.goncalves at gmail.com>
> <mailto:antonio.goncalves at gmail.com
> <mailto:antonio.goncalves at gmail.com>>>:
> >
> > 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 <mailto:rmannibucau at gmail.com>
> <mailto:rmannibucau at gmail.com <mailto: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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Romain Manni-Bucau
> > @rmannibucau | Blog | Github | LinkedIn | Tomitriber
> >
> > 2015-08-30 15:57 GMT+02:00 Antonio Goncalves
> <antonio.goncalves at gmail.com
> <mailto:antonio.goncalves at gmail.com>
> <mailto:antonio.goncalves at gmail.com
> <mailto: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 <mailto:rmannibucau at gmail.com>
> <mailto:rmannibucau at gmail.com <mailto:rmannibucau at gmail.com>>>
> wrote:
> > 2015-08-30 15:22 GMT+02:00 John D. Ament
> <john.d.ament at gmail.com <mailto:john.d.ament at gmail.com>
> <mailto:john.d.ament at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
> <mailto:antonio.goncalves at gmail.com>
> <mailto:antonio.goncalves at gmail.com
> <mailto: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 <mailto:antoine at sabot-durand.net>
> <mailto:antoine at sabot-durand.net
> <mailto: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 août 2015 à 23:15, arjan tijms
> <arjan.tijms at gmail.com <mailto:arjan.tijms at gmail.com>
> <mailto:arjan.tijms at gmail.com
> <mailto:arjan.tijms at gmail.com>>> a écrit :
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Antonio Goncalves
> > <antonio.goncalves at gmail.com
> <mailto:antonio.goncalves at gmail.com>
> <mailto:antonio.goncalves at gmail.com
> <mailto: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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