[weld-dev] Java SE extension

[Pete Muir]

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/WELDX-50

Pete R - do you want to take this, or do you want me to do it?

BTW, to make use in JavaSE easier (especially to avoid RSI by typing crazy long -cp entries) we should add a single jar that includes all deps

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/WELDX-51

On 21 Nov 2009, at 18:36, Gavin King wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> * I would prefer to not actually bootstrap Weld core inside the Weld constructor (I believe this should be an explicit step), hence the boot() method. We could rename this to initialize() for example. Opinions?
> 
> Fine by me. Especially since that at some stage we will need to pass
> some kind of settings before booting.
> 
>> * What API do we want to expose to allow people to get hold of an Instance<?> ? IMO we need more syntatic sugar than offered by BeanManager. Do we want to just allow access to Instances (as above)?
> 
> 
> Stick the following two methods on the object returned by initialize():
> 
>     Instance<Object> instance();
>     Instance<Event> event();
> 
> So I can do:
> 
>   Weld weld = new Weld().initialize();
>   weld.instance().select(Foo.class).get()
>   weld.event().select(Bar.class).fire( new Bar() );
>   weld.shutdown();
> 
> Or whatever.