Lifecycle methods in abstract classes

[oglueck]

Hi,

When I use an abstract base class for a bean, and I put life cycle callback methods in the abstract class, they are not being called by the container. Is this behaviour intentional / according to the specs? I did not find anything in the specs relating a class hierarchy of beans.

@MessageDriven
public abstract class BaseBean {
 @PostConstruct
 public void init() {
 System.out.println("Hello world");
 }
}

@MessageDriven
public class MyBean extends BaseBean {

}

[kabirkhan]

This was according to the spec at the time. There are some big changes in the spec which I am implementing at the moment, which should support what you're after

[oglueck]

Fantastic! So do you think it will be available in the final release of EJB3?

[kabirkhan]

yes