[webbeans-dev] Questions & clarifications

[pmuir at redhat.com]

No, I got confused and swapped the words static and non-static when I  
read the spec. Sorry.

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Pete Muir
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On 29 Oct 2008, at 17:14, "Gavin King" <gavin at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Are you sure this is true of *static* inner classes?
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:08 AM,  <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Just that invoking inner class constructors via reflection is a bit  
>> like
>> black magic - is this definitely something we want to do...
>>
>> --
>> Pete Muir
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>>
>> On 29 Oct 2008, at 15:58, "Gavin King" <gavin at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> I don't understand what you're suggesting here, Pete.
>>>
>>>
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