[seam-dev] Loading resources from the ServletContext

[Pete Muir]

On 10 Apr 2010, at 00:13, Stuart Douglas wrote:

> I have rolled back the changes, however I am not sure if it is possible to do this as a decorator.  From the spec section on how decorators are bound to beans:
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> 8.3. A decorator is bound to a bean if: .... The decorator is enabled in the bean archive containing the bean
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> I read this as meaning that I would need to add the Decorator to the beans.xml of weld-extensions to bind the decorator to ResourceLoaderImpl, which would mean a dependency on seam-servlet from weld-extensions, which is not ok.

No, it means you need to enable the decorator in *your* module. Not in the beans.xml of weld-extensions.

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> If this is the case what about removing the private constructor of  ResourceLoaderImpl and specialising it in seam-servlet?

Specialization was removed from the spec, otherwise this would be ideal :-)

We haven't implemented specialization as a portable extension have we?!