On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 14:28, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

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Hi devs,

I'd like to propose to deprecate the "value" and "hints" fields of @Component and instead use the @Named annotation (and @Qualifier annotations later on).

The rationale is to align with JSR330's @Named annotation at injection points and also to start going in the direction of CDI (JSR299) since CDI uses @Named for beans too.

Example before:

@Component("hint") public class MyComponent...

After:

@Component @Named("hint") public class MyComponent

Is @Component really required in that case ?

Yes we still need to discover component declarations.

Do we have to explicitly use @Named("default") for default hint ?

No. CDI says that @Default annotations are not required.

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Here's my +1

Thanks -Vincent

+1 for anything going in the direction of using JSR330

-- Thomas Mortagne

Thanks -Vincent

On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 14:41, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

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On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 14:28, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

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Hi devs,

I'd like to propose to deprecate the "value" and "hints" fields of @Component and instead use the @Named annotation (and @Qualifier annotations later on).

The rationale is to align with JSR330's @Named annotation at injection points and also to start going in the direction of CDI (JSR299) since CDI uses @Named for beans too.

Example before:

@Component("hint") public class MyComponent...

After:

@Component @Named("hint") public class MyComponent

Is @Component really required in that case ?

Yes we still need to discover component declarations.

I mean if it's just for discovering we could change the test on @Component to check @Component || @Named

We could but I don't like it too much since it's uneven. @Named doesn't semantically means it's a component. What I'd prefer is find out how CDI impl do it and do the same (since they don't need any annotation for Roles and Components). Thanks -Vincent

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Do we have to explicitly use @Named("default") for default hint ?

No.

CDI says that @Default annotations are not required.

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Here's my +1

Thanks -Vincent

+1 for anything going in the direction of using JSR330

-- Thomas Mortagne

Thanks -Vincent

On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

On 03/30/2011 02:28 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:

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Hi devs,

I'd like to propose to deprecate the "value" and "hints" fields of @Component and instead use the @Named annotation (and @Qualifier annotations later on).

The rationale is to align with JSR330's @Named annotation at injection points and also to start going in the direction of CDI (JSR299) since CDI uses @Named for beans too.

Example before:

@Component("hint") public class MyComponent...

After:

@Component @Named("hint") public class MyComponent

Here's my +1

+1. Will the old mechanism continue to work for a while, for backwards compatibility?

Sure. It's only about marking it deprecated. Thanks -Vincent