[weld-dev] [jsr-299-eg] Updated spec with @BeanTypes and clarification of @New

[Jason T. Greene]

Roberto Chinnici wrote:
> Gavin King wrote:
>>
>> You have provided no argumentation in support of "should not".
>>
>> Whereas I have provided a Very Good Reason why they *should* be
>> injectable, with limited semantics, using the special @New annotation.
>>   
> 
> OK, let me ask you a simpler question: if I have a web module, say, 
> without a beans.xml
> descriptor, can I lookup a BeanManager in JNDI under 
> java:comp/BeanManager? Currently
> the platform spec says you can't.
> 

Are we all talking about the same thing? Earlier you mentioned use the 
term "bean" instead of "class". Are you having an issue with the 
terminology, or is it the capability you have a problem with?

To be clear, when you say @New blah, the resulting bean instance belongs 
to the beanmanager associated with the injection point. The "first" 
instance, if it even exists, is not touched in any way by 299. So all we 
are talking about is a way to reference any class that fits the rules of 
a 299 bean. In other words, anything which can be a 299 bean, has a 
"new" instance implicitly created. The source of that bean is not really 
important, other than it has to be visible to the classloader.

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Jason T. Greene
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