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[jsr341-experts] Re: Bean names with namespace

From: Mark Thomas <markt_at_apache.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:36:04 +0100

On 09/08/2011 21:25, Kin-man Chung wrote:
> On 08/09/11 12:03, Pete Muir wrote:
>> On 9 Aug 2011, at 18:02, Kin-man Chung wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I recall that it is a CDI requirement that bean names can have
>>> namespaces, such as "org.goofy.configs". Pete, is this still the case?
>>>
>> Yes. This is in the CDI spec, so can't be removed right away, we need
>> to support this for at least the next revision.
>>
>>
> I am curious about how it got in the CDI spec in the first place? It is
> just a little strange that CDI can write into its spec about some
> functionalities in another spec that is currently not supported, to say
> the least.

Indeed.

>> This wouldn't work for CDI due to backwards compatibility.
>>
>>
> What backwards compatibility? It is not working currently! Did you
> really got it to work with EL 2.2? How?

If it already works, there is nothing to do in the EL spec.

Mark