[weld-dev] Next steps

[Dan Allen]

As soon as Pete gets back online, we have a number of items we have
identified in the meeting at Devoxx. Those items should start to flow in
this weekend.

-Dan

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gavin King <gavin.king at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, folks, I want us to get a plan together for the first raft of CDI
> extensions. I think there's three kinds of "things" we will be working
> on:
>
> * Unportable extensions (UEs), that integrate with proprietary SPIs in Weld
> * Portable extensions (PEs) with the Weld brand
> * Portable extensions (PEs) with the Seam brand
>
> I imagine that we will distribute UEs along with Weld and cover them
> in the Weld documentation. Hopefully there will not be too many of
> these.
>
> Weld PEs are going to be things that:
>
>   * are general purpose,
>   * are simple, and
>   * don't pull in extra dependencies.
>
> Things which don't fit this description get the Seam brand.
>
> We already have:
>
> (1) weld-se
> (2) weld-servlet and weld-tomcat
> (3) weld-wicket
>
> These are all UEs, I suppose. Or are some of them PEs?
>
> So here's the things that I would like to see us release soon:
>
> (1) A weld-ext module with:
>
>   * logger injection,
>   * @Exact,
>   * @Introduces,
>   * abstract producer methods,
>   * beans declared at constructor level, and
>   * @Named packages.
>
> These are all very easy to implement except @Introduces, which
> requires a little javassist magic.
>
> (I would just package weld-logger in here, I don't see why it needs to
> be in its own module.)
>
> (2) A seam2-int module with:
>
>   * use of @Inject to inject of Seam2 beans into CDI beans (i.e. Weld
> delegates bean instantiation to Seam when there is a @Name)
>   * (hopefully) support for @Inject in Seam2 beans, if this is not
> too hard to implement
>
> I have already done a rough impl of the first part.
>
> (3) A spring-int module.
>
> (4) a seam-transactions module with:
>
>   * support for declarative JPA EntityTransaction management
>   * support for injection of the EntityTransaction
>   * (hopefully) support for the same things with a UserTransaction
> provided by JBoss Transactions
>   * support for the same things with a Hibernate Transaction
>
> I have already done a rough impl of the first part.
>
> (5) a seam-persistence module with:
>
>   * support for injection of JPA EntityManagers with various scopes
>   * (hopefully) support for injection of Hibernate Sessions with various
> scopes
>
> I have already done a rough impl of the first part.
>
> (6) a seam-web module with:
>
>   * injection of FacesContext
>   * injection of servlet contexts
>
> These are both easy.
>
> (7) a seam-jms module with:
>
>   * injection of all the various JMS objects for a resource of type
> Topic or Queue
>
> Is there anything I'm missing?
>
>
> --
> Gavin King
> gavin.king at gmail.com
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