[webbeans-dev] Questions & clarifications

[Pete Muir]

> 8.5.1 "In a Java EE 5 environment, the Web Bean manager is not  
> required to support an active event context during timeout method  
> invocation. "

Probably should say request context

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> 2.5.1 All standard Web Beans defined by this specification, and  
> provided by the Web Bean manager, are defined using the @Standard  
> deployment type. For example, the Conversation object defined in  
> Section 8.5.4, “Conversation context life- cycle” and the Manager  
> object defined in Section 4.8, “The Manager object” have this  
> deployment type. No Web Bean may be declared with the deployment  
> type unless explicitly required by this specification.

Maybe state what happens if one is?

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> 2.5.5 Default deployment type


Doesn't explicitly say what the default deployment type of a non-XML- 
defined Web Bean is.

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> 2.7.1 Defining new stereotypes


Most of these statements say that a DefinitionException is thrown when  
if the stereotype doesn't meet these rules, apart from

> A stereotype may declare at most one scope type.


and

> A stereotype may declare at most one deployment type.

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> 3.2.5.1 Declaring a Web Beans constructor


> If a simple Web Bean defined using annotations does not explicitly  
> declare a constructor using @Initializer, the constructor that  
> accepts no parameters is the Web Bean constructor.


It is possible to call constructors by reflection on inner classes,  
but it requires you to rely on the (AFAIK unspecified) behaviour that  
the inner class instance holds a reference to it's parent instance in  
the "this$<x>" field, where

x = (level-of-nesting - 1)

WDYT?

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> 3.6 An injected field is a non-static, non-final field of a Web Bean  
> implementation class, of a Servlet, or of any EJB session, singleton  
> or message driven bean class.

Maybe should state what the behaviour is if you put a binding  
annotation on a static or final field? e.g. undefined.