[webbeans-dev] Re: suggestion for Web Beans regarding @Named

[Gavin King]

Perhaps a better idea is some archive-level setting to change the behavior
of @Named. Not sure...

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Gavin King <gavin at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Yeah, I hate it, but it probably does make sense.
>
> Send the proposal to the web beans group, I suppose.
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Gavin,
>>
>> I have a suggestion for Web Beans regarding the convention used by the
>> @Named annotation. The nice part about this annotation is that it
>> doesn't require the use of a string value to create a name that maps
>> to the class name. In ~80% of cases, that is what people would do
>> anyway. However, for framework builders, I can see them wanting to
>> create fully-qualified names like in Seam to avoid naming conflicts.
>> Would it be reasonable to propose adding an attribute to the @Named
>> annotation that indicates the Java package should be prepended to the
>> calculated name?
>>
>> @Named(qualified = true)
>>
>> That would avoid people slipping into the non-type safe pattern of:
>>
>> @Named("org.jboss.seam.core.expressions")
>>
>> -Dan
>>
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