Hey Mark, On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> wrote: > Hi folks! > > I'm working on the Apache Implementation of JSR-299 OpenWebBeans and I'm > looking forward to add more support for JSF-2 via providing portable CDI > extensions. > > I already implemented an Extension for the javax.faces.beans.ViewScoped in > our openwebbeans-jsf module, but honestly think that this is not the right > place, because it is really CDI-container independent. Plus, I have a few > other ideas which may serve the Apache JSF community. > > So, because those extensions are both JSF container independent and also CDI > container independent, what about adding them to tomahawk-2 ? > > The extensions I have in mind are > > 1.) moving the CDI support for the @ViewScoped as mentioned above from > openwebbeans-jsf to tomahawk. > > 2.) a new @ViewConversationScoped. Usually @ConversationScoped beans have the > same lifecycle as @RequestScoped beans if no Conversation#begin() will get > called in an action. Which means that one will always get a fresh instance of > a @ConversationScoped bean if e.g. the validation fails before the begin() > can be called. The lifecycle of @ViewConversationScoped bean would begin with > the first view invocation and end at the end of the request in which the > conversation gets closed. >
that's neat; > 3.) a new @ViewRequestScoped. This is basically the same as @ViewScoped, but > the contextual instance will stay available until the end of the request and > will not get destroyed after the action continues on a return "nextPage";. > This may be tricky if the following view accesses the same bean as the > previous view - any suggestions on how this should behave are welcome. > not sure I get that :-) > wdyt? > > a) is tomahawk the right place (at least for 2 and 3)? No. Why not adding to here: https://svn.apache.org//repos/asf/myfaces/commons/ or https://svn.apache.org//repos/asf/myfaces/extensions/ That would make them also independent for a certain component suite ;-) > b) would the functionality be useful for JSF-2 developers? sounds useful to me! -Matthias > > > txs and LieGrue, > strub > > > > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
