[seam-dev] Seam 2.2.0.CR1 release

[Pete Muir]

On 13 Jun 2009, at 02:21, Dan Allen wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
> Stuart, I agree, this is long overdue.
>
> I took a look at your patch, there seems to be a number of problems  
> (System.out.println, changing of SPIs with no changes made to the  
> JBoss5 int project at least), and it is essentially a workaround for  
> a mistake in the underlying architecture, as a result I would prefer  
> to defer this to 299, which does correctly scope all components to  
> the relevant JEE module.
>
> Hmm, I was thinking this was going to get into 2.2 as well...or at  
> least 2.2.1. I know that solving problems like this one is much  
> easier and cleaner w/ 299 given that we have a chance to start over,  
> but I worry that there are enough folks that really need this  
> capability w/o refactoring the rest of their code. Even with 299 in  
> place, if there is any Seam 2 code, users are still going to have  
> the same issue (assuming that this problem is baggage that Seam 2  
> brings with it).

No, the problem is around incorrect attachment of the servlet context  
to the application. Well written modular extensions to 299 won't be  
dealing with this stuff, so it's not a problem.

>
> Stuart, would you be willing to work through this piecemeal? That  
> will make success much more likely. And this really would be huge  
> for Seam 2 if we could get it fixed.
>
> -Dan
>
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