Bill Shannon asked me to get the EJB EG opinion on this subject. Had
this been discussed in 3.1 EG?
thanks,
-marina
On 5/16/2011 2:05 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:
> Section EE.5.2.5 of the EE 6 platform spec (page 70) says that both
> @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy methods are called in class hierarchy
> order, with superclass methods called before subclass methods. This
> makes sense for @PostConstruct, but for @PreDestroy it seems like it
> would make more sense to call them in reverse order, so that the
> subclass would be done using any resources of the superclass before
> the superclass freed them.
>
> Can anyone think of any reason that @PreDestroy should be called in
> the same order as @PostConstruct?
>
> If we decided the currently specified behavior is wrong, I'm worried
> about the compatibility impact of changing it. What do *you* think
> the compatibility impact would be? How many programs would break?