Hi David,
I referred in my earlier emails to them as default producers provided by the spec. A default producer would expose default resources and make them available via a simple @Inject.
Hence default producer is a producer, you could also @Specialize it...
thanks!,
adam
On 11.04.2012, at 05:26, David Blevins wrote:
> Another concrete topic on aligning things (noticed this in some of the matrices).
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> Many times it has come up that we want to make more things injectable via @Inject at the platform level. I'm totally on board with that and have been doing some of the suggesting.
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> I've started mentally calling them "implicit" producers as effectively what we're doing is adding producers to applications that weren't explicitly created by the application.
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> As a large number of applications in existence will already have producer methods or fields that produce various JavaEE resources currently only available via @Resource, @EJB, etc. there is a bit of a compatibility issue.
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> Even if we add producers with full spec-standard qualifiers, any existing injection points that do not use qualifiers become ambiguous.
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> It would be great to hear some thoughts on how to solve that.
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> -David
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