[seam-dev] declaratively beginning a LRC in Seam 3

[Arbi Sookazian]

I just was reading the code for one of the Seam 3 booking example classes (
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/seam/examples/trunk/booking/ejb-jar/src/main/java/org/jboss/seam/examples/booking/booking/BookingAgentBean.java
):

public
@Named("bookingAgent")
@Stateful
@ConversationScoped
class BookingAgentBean implements BookingAgent
{
   private @Logger Log log;

   @PersistenceContext(type = EXTENDED) EntityManager em;

   @Inject Conversation conversation;

   @Inject StatusMessages statusMessages;

   @Inject BookingFormControls formControls;

   @Registered User user;

   //@Fires @Confirmed Event<BookingEvent> bookingConfirmedEvent;
   @Inject BeanManager manager;

   private Hotel hotelSelection;

   private Booking booking;

   private boolean bookingValid;

   public void selectHotel(Hotel hotel)
   {
	   // NOTE get a fresh reference that's managed by the conversational
persistence context
      hotelSelection = em.find(Hotel.class, hotel.getId());
      log.info("Selected the {0} in {1}", hotelSelection.getName(),
hotelSelection.getCity());
      conversation.begin();
   }

...
}

Note the programmatic use of beginning a LRC in the selectHotel() method
above (begin()).  AFAIK, in CDI/Weld, we don't have the capability to
declaratively begin a LRC (like we do in Seam 2.x with @Begin) but can we do
something like write @Begin at method level in Seam 3 apps?

Also, is @ConversationScoped required if the component is @Stateful?
Conversation scope is current default for SFSBs in Seam 2.x.

I found the following example in the weld ref doc:

@ConversationScoped @Stateful
public class OrderBuilder {...}
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