Linda, I think with cdi global enablement we are in a much better position
to add stereotypes to other stuff.
Definitely lets review for 8.
On 13 Dec 2012 20:51, "Linda DeMichiel" <linda.demichiel_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> The results from our survey to the community are in, and Reza has
> been kind enough to summarize them and capture quite a few of the
> representative comments in the attached document.
>
> I'd like to highlight some of the results:
>
> The community agrees with us on the inclusion of the new JSRs into the
> full platform and into the Web Profile. We hope that we will be able
> to include JCache and the Concurrency Utilities JSR as well.
>
> The community strongly supports enabling CDI by default.
> As you've seen in his recent message to the group,
> http://java.net/projects/**javaee-spec/lists/jsr342-**
> experts/archive/2012-12/**message/33<http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/lists/jsr342-experts/archive/2012-12/message/33>
> ,
> Pete has proposed a change to CDI to support this. We support his
> efforts and anticipate that this will be included in Java EE 7.
>
> There is agreement that using @Inject wherever possible is a good
> idea, even though we will need to make some exceptions and will need
> to support the legacy usage of other annotations (where we would have
> chosen to use @Inject instead today).
>
> A significant majority of the respondents think that we should expand
> the use of @Stereotype, even though this hasn't been supported by the
> CDI EG and thus won't be included in Java EE 7. We plan to revisit
> this in Java EE 8, as we try to find a way to support a stereotype-like
> facility without the conflict with CDI stereotypes.
>
> An overwhelming majority support the expansion of interceptors to all
> Java EE components, which we have now standardized on as well, as
> described in my recent message, http://java.net/projects/**
> javaee-spec/lists/jsr342-**experts/archive/2012-12/**message/1<http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/lists/jsr342-experts/archive/2012-12/message/1>
> .
>
>
> Please give yourselves a pat on the back :-)
>
> regards,
>
> -Linda
>
>
>