Original inspiration for xml came from Gavin's design for CDI 1.0. I don't know more details about why they went this direction.
On 25 Sep 2012, at 00:19, Jason Porter wrote: > It did (maybe it still does), but at some point we decided that wasn't > recommended, I don't recall why though, perhaps Stuart or Pete remembers. > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Romain Manni-Bucau > <rmannibu...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> each time i read this kind of conf i think it should be the opposite >> >> why not extending beans.xml (just in the spirit, not in the same file) >> adding <qualfiiers> etc? >> >> >> *Romain Manni-Bucau* >> *Twitter: @rmannibucau* >> *Blog: **http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/*< >> http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/> >> *LinkedIn: **http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau* >> >> >> >> >> 2012/9/25 Jason Porter <lightguard...@gmail.com> >> >>> I'm going to send probably the most comprehensive example that exists >> about >>> what Seam XML can do: >>> >>> >>> >> https://github.com/seam/config/blob/develop/examples/princess-rescue/src/main/resources/META-INF/seam-beans.xml >>> >>> You can also find the Java classes that back that config at >>> >>> >> https://github.com/seam/examples/tree/master/princess-rescue/src/main/java/org/jboss/seam/examples/princessrescue >>> >>> Mark, could you give some examples of the stuff you would like to see as >>> well? >>> >>> -- >>> Jason Porter >>> http://lightguard-jp.blogspot.com >>> http://twitter.com/lightguardjp >>> >>> Software Engineer >>> Open Source Advocate >>> Author of Seam Catch - Next Generation Java Exception Handling >>> >>> PGP key id: 926CCFF5 >>> PGP key available at: keyserver.net, pgp.mit.edu >>> >> > > > > -- > Jason Porter > http://lightguard-jp.blogspot.com > http://twitter.com/lightguardjp > > Software Engineer > Open Source Advocate > Author of Seam Catch - Next Generation Java Exception Handling > > PGP key id: 926CCFF5 > PGP key available at: keyserver.net, pgp.mit.edu
