>>>>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:16:15 -0400, Kito Mann <kito.mann_at_virtua.com> said:
KM> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com>wrote:
EB> The use of CDI for all things managed bean was decided long ago, when
EB> CDI and JSF were both included in the JavaEE Web Profile. That decision
EB> cannot be revisited. JSF will still keep the practice of running just
EB> fine in straight up Tomcat, but features that use CDI, such as flows and
EB> the new @ViewScoped annotation (also in the flow package) will only work
EB> if CDI is present.
EB> The same is true for Bean Validation, the features that use Bean
EB> Validation only work if Bean Validation is present.
EB>
KM> That makes sense, but why do we need a new annotation? Can't we just have
KM> ViewScope be picked up by CDI if it's in the classpath?
Because I plan to deprecate javax.faces.beans at some point after 2.2.
Ed
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