[webbeans-dev] Re: Rough draft proposal for resource injection

[Scott Ferguson]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Gavin King wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Scott Ferguson <ferg at caucho.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> First, this capability should be implemented as a general Bridge  
>> defined in
>> javax.webbeans.spi.Bridge and define the JavaEE capabilities in  
>> terms of the
>> underlying Bridge.  (Similar in logic to Bean but a different point  
>> in the
>> configuration lifecycle.)  That would improve modularity and allow an
>> eventual migration of the Bridge ownership to the individual JavaEE  
>> specs in
>> a later version.
>
> Hrm, I don't get your comment about configuration lifecycle. Surely
> this Bridge would just be a subtype of Bean?
>
> I don't understand what we need it for.
>
> I feel like Bean already provides sufficient pluggability...

The actual Bridge SPI can be put off until JavaEE 7 (when I'd expect  
the other JSRs to control their Bridges).  As long as webbeans spec  
isn't trapped by overspecification, i.e. the spec is logically  
consistent with a future underlying Bridge,  it doesn't need to be  
explicitly defined now.

-- Scott

>
>
>
>> Second, the JavaEE annotation types should be defined in their own  
>> namespace
>> for modularity and consistency, not the WebBeans namespace.
>>
>> <xsql:DataSource xmlns:xsql="urn:java:javax.sql">
>> <ann:Resource xmlns:ann="urn:java:javax.annotation">
>>    ...
>> </ann:...>
>>
>> <my:Foo xmlns:my="urn:java:com.foo.my">
>> <ejb:EJB xmlns:ejb="urn:java:javax.ejb">
>>
>> <jms:Queue xmlns:jms="urn:java:javax.jms">
>> ...
>
> I'm OK with that if others are.
>
>
>
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