Custom annotations and final @Create methods

[acerberus]

When I tried to handle custom annotations using the deploymentStrategy as described in Chapter 30 I found that for some reason the field fooClasses is not populated if the create method is declared as final. Is there any specific reason for this behaviour or is this a bug in Seam? I am using Seam 2.1.1.

@In("#{deploymentStrategy.annotatedClasses['com.acme.Foo']}")
private Set<Class<Object>> fooClasses;

  @Create
  public final void create() {
    // fooClasses is empty
  }

Cheers
Arno

[jeanluc]

Seam components are dynamically-generated subclasses (using Cglib) of the classes you wrote. Final methods, by definitions, cannot be overridden so Seam is not able to weave its functionality into them.

[acerberus]

That sounds reasonable .. thanks.