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[jsr366-experts] Re: One container to rule them all

From: Antonio Goncalves <antonio.goncalves_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 17:30:01 +0100

I think the Java EE spec is the perfect place to have such feature !

Antonio

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Antoine Sabot-Durand <
antoine_at_sabot-durand.net> wrote:

> Form what I understand, you're proposing to add a new specification to
> provide a facade and a common SPI for all the container. Is that it?
>
> Antoine
>
>
> Le 22 déc. 2014 à 21:28, Antonio Goncalves <antonio.goncalves_at_gmail.com>
> a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> We've talked about this topic in EE 7... and I'm bringing it back to EE 8.
>
> At the moment, the Java EE spec defines several containers (*EE.2.4 -
> Containers*) : Web Container, EJB Container, Application Client Container
> and Applet Container. Each having its own set of services (*EE.2.7 - Java
> EE Standard Services*) such as JTA, Validation, CDI... The spec also
> defines SPIs (*EE.2.12.2 - Java EE Service Provider Interfaces*) as "the
> contract between the Java EE platform and service providers that may be
> plugged into a Java EE product". But these SPIs are not really mandatory
> (only a few specs have SPIs).
>
> Why not go further and say "*There is a single Java EE container, and
> each service can then be plugged in through a SPI*" ?
>
> Let me take an example. If we want to persist a Book Entity in Java SE we
> go :
>
> *EntityManagerFactory* emf =
> Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(PERSISTENCE_UNIT_NAME);
> *EntityManager* em = emf.createEntityManager();
> EntityTransaction tx em.getTransaction();
>
> tx.begin();
> Book book = service.createBook(new Book("H2G2"));
> tx.commit();
>
> em.close();
> emf.close();
>
>
> That's fine because the JPA service does persistence. But if the Book
> Entity has a Listener with a CDI @Inject, this doesn't work anymore : you
> need an extra injection services that comes from another spec (CDI in this
> case). The idea behind the EJBContainer API was to aggregate several
> services (i.e. the services given to an EJB component). So, to have JPA and
> CDI working in Java SE we would go :
>
> Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<>();
> properties.put(EJBContainer.MODULES, new File("target/classes"));
> *EJBContainer* ec = EJBContainer.createEJBContainer(properties);
> Context ctx = ec.getContext();
>
> BookEJB bookEJB = (BookEJB) ctx.lookup("java:global/classes/BookEJB");
>
> ec.close();
>
>
> But if the EJB spec is not updated, then the EJBContainer will not
> include the new services (such has the new Security spec, and so on).
>
> *So what if the Java EE spec would define a single container API *?
> Something like this would trigger a full Java EE container with *all* the
> services :
>
> *Container eec = Container.createContainer();*
>
> EntityManagerFactory emf = *eec*
> .createEntityManagerFactory(PERSISTENCE_UNIT_NAME);
> EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
> EntityTransaction tx em.getTransaction();
>
> tx.begin();
> Book book = service.createBook(new Book("H2G2"));
> tx.commit();
>
> em.close();
> emf.close();
>
> *eec*.close();
>
>
> Or if we just need the JPA + BeanValidation + CDI providers, we would go :
>
> List<Container.PROVIDER> properties = new ArrayList<>();
> properties.put(*PROVIDER.JPA*);
> properties.put(*PROVIDER.BEAN_VALIDATION*);
> properties.put(*PROVIDER.CDI*);
> *Container* eec = Container.createContainer(properties);
> //...
> *eec*.close();
>
>
> To have a Web Profile we could go :
>
> List<Container.PROVIDER> properties = new ArrayList<>();
> properties.put(*PROVIDER.WEB_PROFILE*);
> Container ec = Container.createContainer(properties);
> //...
> ec.close();
>
>
> And the Container API would become a facade to create any Java EE
> provider :
>
> EntityManagerFactory emf = *Container.createEntityManagerFactory*
> (PERSISTENCE_UNIT_NAME);
> CacheManager cache = *Container.createCacheManager()*;
> WebManager web = *Container.createWebManager()*;
> BeanManager bm = *Container.createBeanManager()*;
>
>
> This would bring real modularity (even before Java EE 9) and, finally,
> would ease Java SE execution and testing.
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> --
> Antonio Goncalves
> Software architect, Java Champion and Pluralsight author
>
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>
>


-- 
Antonio Goncalves
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