Thank you John to launch this subject. I've been very busy since january and didn't found time to launch the subject. To be totally honest I thought I was the only one interested in them.
Now regarding Generic beans in Solder : - documentation is quite inaccurate - they are bugy : I didn't had bug, but it seems that some their tests don't pass - I read some wrong information about them : you can't create beans in another scope that the generic bean definition. I'll prepare a description of how I use them in Seam Social to ease extension of the framework and the issue I encounter using them. regards, Antoine SABOT-DURAND Le 4 mars 2012 à 18:27, Jason Porter a écrit : > I think they're really powerful, but we may need to do some rewrite to make > sure it works correctly in a modular container. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 4, 2012, at 8:52, "John D. Ament" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> I would like to begin discussing the use of Generic Beans from Solder >> (currently this issue is assigned to Antoine, but I have some bandwidth and >> offered to help him here). This feature is used to configure a set of >> related beans that require shared components, while still allowing scopes >> to be provided. This is useful when trying to make legacy libraries/APIs >> CDI capable. The following are the API components required for >> GenericBeans: >> >> - @GenericType(Class<?> clazz) - defines the type of configuration for the >> generic. This annotation is placed on another annotation, as defined by >> the application developer or framework author to support how configuration >> is resolved. This will look for a matching bean of the given type and >> resolve it based on the annotation that this is assigned to. >> - @Generic - when using the manager type, defines an expected injection >> point for a generic bean. >> - @GenericConfiguration(Class<?> clazz) - defines the relationship between >> generic objects. >> - @ApplyScope - indicates that the produced object should inherit the scope >> of the configuration. >> >> >> The examples in the Solder documentation describe this in depth: >> http://docs.jboss.org/seam/3/3.1.0.Final/reference/en-US/html/solder-genericbeans.html >> >> Thoughts/questions on the feature? >> >> john
