[webbeans-dev] Is @Named qualifier?

[Sven Linstaedt]

quoted from the OWB dev list:

>From my point of view this is a conceptual mismatch: One spec uses the
annotation just for binding specific beans to a literal name, the other one
uses it for differentiate between multiple beans.
Even this should be no immediate issue for JSR 299's typesafe resolution
mechanism, if a single bean is further qualified with specific @Named name,
I do not feel well, if people are going to use this annotation as a
qualifying one like @Named("stage_test") on multiple beans. The EL namespace
gets polluted with unresolvable names and developers become potentially
confused by the ambiguous usage of the annotation.

In brief: Identifiers (like EL names or Spring bean IDs) does not feel like
being qualifiers (e.g. @Asynchronous) from my point of view.

br, Sven




> Reusing it for defining the EL name does make sense semantically to
> me. In general qualifiers are used in resolution, in the "by name"
> case, we have a special qualifier.
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