It's not really up to CDI to support this, support would be in Java EE.
On 6 Jan 2012, at 19:16, Antonio Goncalves wrote:
> I will file an issue but the purpose of my email was really to have @Alternative on a @DataSourceDefinition (and JMS definitions in the future). Something that sounded obvious to me (having several alternatives definitions) is not possible in CDI 1.0. Hope it will be in 1.1.
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> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 19:37, Pete Muir <pmuir_at_bleepbleep.org.uk> wrote:
> If you file an issue at http://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDITCK we can add some tests to the CDI TCK for @DataSourceDefinition.
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> On 6 Jan 2012, at 18:35, reza_rahman_at_lycos.com wrote:
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> > Although, if I recall correctly there was no TCK test for this...
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> > Jan 6, 2012 01:32:22 PM, jsr342-experts_at_javaee-spec.java.net wrote:
> > It's basically a bug I think -- we implemented what you are looking for in Resin. I think the Java EE platform spec is pretty clear about @DataSourceDefinition on plain managed beans, Servlets, EJB.
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> > Jan 6, 2012 03:05:45 AM, jsr342-experts_at_javaee-spec.java.net wrote:
> > Hi all,
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> > I just came accross a limitation (bug) of GlassFish : adding a @DataSourceDefinition on a CDI bean doesn't work in an embedded environment (http://www.java.net/forum/topic/glassfish/glassfish/invalid-resource-datasource-embedded-mode). I had to put it in the EJB to make it work.
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> > Why do I use @DataSourceDefinition on a CDI bean instead of an EJB ? Because I thought I could use alternatives (i.e. defining several data sources depending on the environment). But this doesn't work in CDI 1.0 (https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-53).
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> > Alternatives should work on definitions, don't you think ? In other specs, are you aware of other kind of definitions (I know that JMS 2.0 will bring similar features with @JMSConnectionFactoryDefinition and @JMSDestinationDefinition) ? If yes, we should encourage the spec leads to use similar behavior.
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> > My 2 cents
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