Where is the @Name annotation?

[horseface]

Hi,

Im new to Seam and am trying to setup a simple project with Primefaces and Jboss 6. I've downloaded the Seam 3 Final bundle and added the jars in the artifact folder to my project. I however dont get the @Name annotation. Am i missing something?

Thanks in advance

/Eric

[shane.bryzak]

The @Name annotation is from Seam 2, and doesn't exist in Seam 3/CDI.  The equivalent annotation is @Named, which is defined by the CDI specification.  There is a slight difference in behaviour - the @Name annotation from Seam 2 is required to denote a class as being a Seam component, however in CDI your class is automatically a bean if it meets the requirements for a managed bean (see the managed beans specification from JSR316).

[jsoye]

Hi,
It's actually @Named in Seam 3. In Seam 2.x it is @Name.
@Named is in javax.inject.jar, so use it like

import javax.inject.Named;

@Named
@SessionScoped
public class Game implements Serializable {
   private int number;
   private int guess;
   ...
   // getters and setters
}

<h:outputText id="Higher" value="Higher!"
                  rendered="#{game.number gt game.guess and game.guess ne 0}"/>

This annotation is only required when you want to make the bean accessible to a JSF view via EL (i.e., #{game}).

The name defaults to the unqualified class name, decapitalized; in this case, game.

In Seam 2.x, it is

import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;

@Name("categoryList")
public class CategoryList {
     ...
}

[horseface]

Thanks guys, really appreaciate it.

Regards
/Eric