[OWB-472] archive centric beans.xml enabling

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: Injection and Lookup
• Assignee: Mark Struberg
• Reporter: Jacquelle Leggett
• Created: 14/Oct/10 17:28
• Updated: 15/May/11 16:35
• Resolved: 24/Mar/11 21:24

Description

This issue was discussed in great detail in June (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openwebbeans-dev/201006.mbox/browser) on the developers forum. The title of the thread is "problems with lack of archive-centric BeanManager".

The main problem is described below (snippet from discussion):

"...Our current design does not permit either of the following scenarions, AFAICT:

b.jar and c.jar both enable the interceptor defined in a.jar
(treated as a duplicate)
Exactly one of b.jar and c.jar enables the interceptor defined in
a.jar (ends up enabled for beans from either archive if enabled in one
– this is in the more troubling neighborhood)..."