[seam-dev] What's the purpose of the method context?

[Norman Richards]

On Jun 9, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Dan Allen wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Gavin King <gavin at hibernate.org>  
> wrote:
>> This is correct, it prevents some very wrong behavior when the
>> component is invoked recursively.
>
> Hmmm, so its one of those "damned if you do, damned if you don't".
> There is one possible workaround. The Events component could skip the
> METHOD context when looking up the observers. The other solution is to
> use the example I gave and lookup the component outside of the METHOD
> scope.

The Events context can push a new method context before raising an  
event and pop it back afterwards to solve the problem, though I  
suspect that would nullify that SFSB unwrapping protection that it  
appears the method context interceptor was trying to solve.  I'll have  
to test it out.