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

[Pete Muir]

In fact, Ales has already done some prototyping

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/trunk/kernel/src/main/org/jboss/kernel/plugins/annotations/wb/
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/trunk/kernel/src/tests/org/jboss/test/kernel/annotations/test/wb/

On 9 May 2008, at 16:50, Pete Muir wrote:

> 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?
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