basically having a commons.Interceptor api can be interesting then we simply need to map to spring and cdi
this is done in shiro for instance and works very well *Romain Manni-Bucau* *Twitter: @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau>* *Blog: **http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/*<http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/> *LinkedIn: **http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau* *Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau* 2013/2/13 Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> > 2013/2/13 Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> > > > Benedikt, > > > > On 13 févr. 2013, at 08:49, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > > > Commons components usually don't have any dependencies. How would you > > > implement this under this restriction? > > > > > > > > I've never seen this written before. Have you? > > > > Yes, on the commons website [1]: > > "Commons developers will make an effort to ensure that their components > have minimal dependencies on other libraries, so that these components can > be deployed easily." > > But you're right If you wanted to point out, that this is not an absolute > must-have. We can have minimal dependencies. > I guess (but I don't know!) it would be okay to have a dependency to the > AOP alliance jars, for example to define a new MethodInterceptor [2] for > monitoring. But IMHO it would be rather strange to have dependencies to > org.springframework.aop to define a new MethodBeforeAdvice [3] for > monitoring. > > Makes sense? :) > > Benedikt > > [1] http://commons.apache.org/ > [2] > > http://aopalliance.sourceforge.net/doc/org/aopalliance/intercept/MethodInterceptor.html > [3] > > http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.0.M1/javadoc-api/org/springframework/aop/MethodBeforeAdvice.html > > > > > > paul > > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter >