Can CDI offer magic for PhaseListener impl?

[asookazian]

I have the following class which I want to be available/active during dev, not prod.

@Name("lifeCycleListener")
@Install(false)
public class LifeCycleListener implements PhaseListener {
    
     private static final long serialVersionUID = 7280794517722311938L;
     
     private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(LifeCycleListener.class);

     public PhaseId getPhaseId() {
        return PhaseId.ANY_PHASE;
    }

    public void beforePhase(PhaseEvent event) {
        log.info("LifeCycleListener: START PHASE " + event.getPhaseId());
    }

    public void afterPhase(PhaseEvent event) {
         log.info("LifeCycleListener: END PHASE " + event.getPhaseId());
    }

}

Is there any way to refactor this in CDI/Weld such that I can achieve this?  The @Install(false) did not block the class from being active, all that does is block it from being scanned and installed/managed by the Seam container as a Seam component. 

Or perhaps this is simply a build issue (i.e. have ant or maven not include this class in the WAR/EAR if the build mode is 'prod').  But I was hoping for an elegant programmatic solution.

thx.

[gavin.king]

No, there's not real integration between CDI and PhaseListeners.

[nickarls]

BTW, I mailed plaform/jsf feedback recently which resulted in issue 718

[asookazian]

I'm not suggesting or even really requesting for such integration to be added to the CDI spec, etc.  Unless it is appropriate and that is up to you guys.  But I thought that some way to configure this for dev/prod would be really cool (e.g. @Alternatives, etc.)  Otherwise, it becomes a PITA to handle this properly.

NKarlsson, thx for creating the JSF issue!

This is actually a general problem if you think about it.  It is a envmt config problem for classes in general, not just classes implementing JSF-specific interfaces like in this case.  How do we or should we handle this in EE 6?

[asookazian]

Now I just read the @Install annotation section in SiA book.  There is a debug attribute which indicates that the component should be installed only when Seam is operating in debug mode.

I don't see an @Install here: http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/api/

So maybe in EE 7 there can be an @Install that has either the CDI or EJB container (or whatever container(s) that will be active for that spec/impl) install my LifeCycleListener if in the ejb-jar.xml or application.xml or beans.xml configs, etc. the debug flag is set to true.

WDYT?

Or is there such a concept already in EE 6?