[webbeans-dev] conversation context lifecycle

[Gavin King]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Clint Popetz <cpopetz at gmail.com> wrote:
> My $.02 is that conversation propagation doesn't belong in the spec.  It's
> very easy with the new SPI to set up the conversation context based on your
> own rules, and this could be done to support servlets interoperating with
> conversations that are started by JSF.  I'd rather a named request parameter
> wasn't in the spec.  For example, that's not how Wicket will
> activate/deactivate conversations, nor would anything else that used RESTful
> notation for path processing  (i.e. the conversation id looks like
> /conversationId/3)

Right, I think the point about wicket is a very strong point. I still
think we should provide conversations for JSF OOTB, but servlets seems
much more debatable. At least, there would need to be some way to turn
it off.

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