[webbeans-dev] Re: Distributed event channels

[Dan Allen]

> It is and remains my very strong view that unless we provide a very
> easy-to-use mechanism that allows state synchronization between
> stateful components to occur as part of the transaction completion
> lifecycle, then actual web beans applications are going to be riddled
> with bugs. They are going to break the minute a transaction rollback
> occurs. Many Java EE applications already have this kind of bug, since
> it is difficult to code for, and even more difficult to test for.
> Since Web Beans encourages stateful components, these bugs will become
> even more common!

I strongly agree, you really can't discard the event part of the spec
without understanding the consequences of doing so. Being able to hold
off events from being fired (and thus observers from being notified)
until the transaction completes successfully is a cornerstone of the
stateful programming model. I'd love to see what Gavin writes up
because perhaps I think it will make the feasibility much more clear.

-Dan

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Dan Allen
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