Hello; That is great news, creating a maven module with webbeans-se.
In the mean time, could you look at org.apache.webbeans.boot.Bootstrap class. Also there is a Java Swing sample, maybe you could want to look at it, it is located in the samples/standalone-sample. Thanks; --Gurkan 2010/4/12 Mario Ivankovits <ma...@ops.co.at> > Hi! > > > > I am developing a "standalone" Swing Application and trying to make use of > CDI (using openwebbeans). Also for being more fit when discussing Orchestra > related things :-) > > > > > > Naturally a Swing Application consists of multiple threads. At least the > main thread and the so called Event Dispatcher Thread (EDT) for UI handling. > > Beside this you will find a lot of other short-time threads handling > actions triggered by the user through the UI. > > > > The problem I have is the org.apache.webbeans.spi.se.DefaultContextsService > class which uses ThreadLocals to store all the contexts. > > > > I think this is not right, at least not for all the contexts provided. > > For example the ApplicationContext, SessionContext, SingletonContext and > DependentContext should be a simple member of the class. Not sure about (CDI > like) ConversationContext. > > The RequestContext might be arguable to life with the Thread - however, the > developer need to take care to destroy the RequestContext manually somehow - > or something we can implment into the Swing Application Framework. > > > > For now I solved that by providing my own ContextsService impl through > openwebbeans.properties. > > > > > > Also, like in Weld, I'd love to see some utility class to startup CDI in an > standalone app. Once you figured out it is easy already, but it can be even > more easy, and we can provide some predefined events like > ContainerInitialized [1]. > > > > > > Said that (and given my observations are correct), what do you think about > starting up a webbeans-se module where we put these things together? > > It won't grow to a huge project, though. > > > > Ciao, > > Mario > > > > [1] > http://www.jarvana.com/jarvana/view/org/jboss/weld/weld-se/1.0.0-CR2/weld-se-1.0.0-CR2-javadoc.jar!/org/jboss/weld/environment/se/events/ContainerInitialized.html<http://www.jarvana.com/jarvana/view/org/jboss/weld/weld-se/1.0.0-CR2/weld-se-1.0.0-CR2-javadoc.jar%21/org/jboss/weld/environment/se/events/ContainerInitialized.html> > -- Gurkan Erdogdu http://gurkanerdogdu.blogspot.com
