This is the only spot in the specification where a list of APIs and the order they must be called is specified. Some of the items like : "Create an AnnotatedType instance for the entity listener class" have no semantic implications, it's just a factory API call.
Why are the paragraphs at the beginning of the section insufficient?
--Gordon
On 9/12/2011 1:47 PM, Linda DeMichiel wrote:
> Hmmm.... I followed the lead of the platform spec in writing this.
>
> Doesn't the "as if" at the top of page 96 and the statement
> "Persistence providers may optimize the steps above, e.g. by avoiding calls to the actual CDI SPI and relying on container-specific interfaces instead, as long as the outcome is the same"
> provide sufficient latitude?
>
> The steps listed are intended to nail down the semantics, while still allowing
> the possibility of custom implementations of those semantics.
>
> What rewording would you prefer to see?
>
>
> On 9/12/2011 7:06 AM, Gordon Yorke wrote:
>> I am uncomfortable with the spec prescribing the operations the provider must take to acquire an Entity Listener for
>> CDI. This is potentially quite limiting on providers and it is unclear what the benefit to end users would be. It should
>> be enough to state the events must be called and the listener instance is expected to be non-contextual.
>>
>> --Gordon
>>
>> On 9/6/2011 8:12 PM, Linda DeMichiel wrote:
>>> I've just uploaded a updated draft of the spec to our project's Downloads area,
>>> http://java.net/projects/jpa-spec/downloads.
>>>
>>> The changes in this draft are fairly constrained, but I wanted to create a
>>> checkpointed draft in advance of contemplating any changes in support of
>>> unsynchronized persistence contexts.
>>>
>>> Changes in this draft are the following:
>>>
>>> Sections 3.5-3.5.2: Support for CDI injection into entity listener classes
>>> Section 6.3.1: Addition of method to CriteriaBuilder interface for downcasting of Root objects.
>>> Section 7.4: Addition of unwrap method to EntityManagerFactory interface
>>> Section 7.10: Addition of unwrap method to Cache interface
>>> Section 9.1: Requirement on the Java EE container to pass reference to BeanManager on
>>> the createContainerEntityManagerFactory call.
>>>
>>> The changebars continue to be additive from the last draft, as I am
>>> not planning to reset changebars until after we release a milestone
>>> draft to the JCP site.
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you have any comments or corrections.
>>>
>>> -Linda
>>>
>>>
>>>