[weld-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (CDI-35) add support for 'optional' beans

[Mark Struberg (JIRA)]

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Mark Struberg commented on CDI-35:
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If the spec would specify that the classpath scanning also needs to work for 'unfinished classes' then we would be able to implement such a functionality as portable extension. I got pointed to Seams @Required, but this is currently not working in OWB because we throw a DeploymentException if we find a bean with an unresolved class dependency.

> add support for 'optional' beans
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>                 Key: CDI-35
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-35
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>            Reporter: Mark Struberg
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> sometimes it's neat to mark a bean as @Optional depending if a specified class can get loaded or not.
> This is a simple way to implement deployment specific functionality. 
> An example would be a BvalSupportBean which only should become active if the JSR-303 bean validation API can be found on the classpath. 

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