[webbeans-dev] Basing the RI on the JBoss MC

[Pete Muir]

A number of people have suggested basing the RI on the JBoss MC.

As I see it, the core services we need in WB:

* Defining scoped components, backed by EJBs if needed
* Defining bindings
* Defining (custom) scopes
* Managing lifecycle of components through contexts
* Integration with EL
* Resolution of components
* Support for interceptors
* Observer/observable
* Deployment of Web Beans jars

If we use the MC we get ootb:

* flexible deployment system
* Defining components
* DI (inc into constructors)
* Support for building custom XML deployment descriptors
* Support for applying AOP

which will get us going pretty quick

But

* it introduces quite a lot of dependencies which we don't directly  
control (JBoss MC, JBoss XB etc.)
* it still seems to be under pretty heavy development (docs are very  
incomplete)
* what happens if WB RI uses one version of MC and the AS uses another?

WDYT?