[jsr-314-open] [Fwd: CDI and JSF Phase Listeners]

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 8 Jan 2010, at 17:38, Dan Allen wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Roger Kitain <Roger.Kitain at sun.com> wrote:
>> It would be a nice feature to be able to have CDI injection in Phase
>> Listeners also, as any Servlet/JSF/CDI integration is always welcome
>> where applicable
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>> This is actually a more general requirement (which we may have discussing in passing). Any user-defined class instance that JSF creates should be classified as a components in Java EE. But, to accommodate that without tying JSF directly to the platform (a separation we have always maintained), there should be a pluggable class instance resolver which could be satisfied with a CDI implementation, a Spring bean implementation, etc.
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> I had initially thought we should just specify that JSF is required to support this injection, but I can see that specifying an SPI to support instantiation/lifecycle management of these objects would fit well with the pluggability goal that JSF has.
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> Is this too big for a mainatainance release?
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> Is this something we can prototype in MyFaces or Mojarra sooner?


sure thing! Do you mind to forward this to the dev at myfaces.apache.org list ?

-Matthias



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