Extended Identity not being loaded during Initialization

[luiggitama.luiggitama.gmail.com]

Hi all...

I have a problem with extended components (at least an extended Identity, as explained in the docs) not being loaded during Seam Initialization process, but the default ones winning in precedence. I fired a JBSEAM-3404 JIRA issue about it, but still have no answer.

The problem occurs when using Seam 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT. I'm using snapshot 303 because I also had the redeploying NullPointerException problem, which was related to JBSEAM-3357 JIRA issue, which was solved in snapshot 296, revision 8857, with some changes in Initialization.java.

But now, I can't download snapshot 296, there is no download link to it, and Initialization.java has had more changes in newer snapshots in trunk.

I don't like the NPE problem, which is supposedly solved with the fixes in trunk (I have to manually redeploy all my webapp to see a little change working... :-S ). But with the fixes in the snapshot, I can't even use my extended Identity component, so can't test the solved issues.

Has anyone else had this issue? Can anyone else test? I attach the issue description below. Hope someone can help...

Regards,

Luis Tama

JBSEAM-3404 Description:

I have this Extended Identity component, which lets me render different home pages according to the user roles:

@Name("org.jboss.seam.security.identity")
@Scope(ScopeType.SESSION)
@Install(precedence = Install.APPLICATION)
@BypassInterceptors
@Startup
public class Identity extends org.jboss.seam.security.Identity {

private static final String DEFAULT_HOME_PAGE = "/home/home.xhtml";
private String homePage = DEFAULT_HOME_PAGE;

// getter and setter for homePage, and business logic

// and some other important properties related to my business model...
}

In Seam 2.1.0.BETA1, it works fine:
...
21:53:16,159 INFO [Initialization] Installing components...
...
21:53:16,921 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.security.identity, scope: SESSION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.ostion.siplacad.session.Identity
...

In Seam 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT # 303, it's not being loaded:
...
21:55:54,125 INFO [Initialization] Installing components...
...
21:55:55,500 INFO [Component] Component: org.jboss.seam.security.identity, scope: SESSION, type: JAVA_BEAN, class: org.jboss.seam.security.Identity
...
21:55:56,765 INFO [Initialization] two components with same name, higher precedence wins: org.jboss.seam.security.identity
...

So I can't access identity.homePage from my webapp. I can see this exception in debug.seam:
Exception during request processing:
Caused by javax.el.MethodNotFoundException with message: "Method not found: [e-mail]()"
...
I will not post the full stack trace, because the obvious reason for the problem is that the extended component is not being loaded by Seam.

I checked Seam source code, comparing versions BETA1 and SNAPSHOT # 303:
Class org.jboss.seam.Component has no changes between versions.
Class org.jboss.seam.security.Identity has changed, but i don't think there is a problem there.
Class org.jboss.seam.init.Initialization does have some changes, specially regarding hotDeploymentStrategy. I guess there is a problem is with the hacks over there.

Please check this. I must tell I switched to the SNAPSHOT to not have the "NPE with hot Redeployment" issue, but now I can't even see my webapp!!