Events.raiseEvent with javabeans

[knaas]

When one javabean raises an event to another javabean, what needs to be the syntax for the event method? A nonarg method is easy.

How does one raise an event such that the Observer knows who initiated it? It doesn't appear from the CVS source that the initiator is passed to the Observer. Should there be a raiseEvent method that takes in an (Object... args) and passes those to the Observer?

[gavin.king]

Well, I suppose I could do that.

But, OTOH, you could just do

Contexts.getEventContext().set("eventRaiser", this);

And you then inject eventRaiser in the observer...

[gavin.king]

Btw, I did also consider supporting a varargs list of arguments to raiseEvent(). I decided to leave that out for now, since it does not work so well if we are using EL expressions to call the observers.