org.jboss.cdi.tck.spi

Interface Beans

public interface Beans

Provides Bean related operations. The TCK porting package must provide an implementation of this interface which is suitable for the target implementation. This interface may be removed.

Author:

Shane Bryzak, Pete Muir, David Allen

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	PROPERTY_NAME

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	activate(byte[] bytes) Activates a bean instance from the given serialized bytes.
boolean	isProxy(Object instance) Determines if the object instance is actually a proxy object.
byte[]	passivate(Object instance) Passivates the object tree starting with the bean instance provided.

Field Detail

PROPERTY_NAME

static final String PROPERTY_NAME

Method Detail

isProxy

boolean isProxy(Object instance)

Determines if the object instance is actually a proxy object.

Parameters:

instance - The object which might be a proxy

Returns:

true if the object is a proxy

passivate

byte[] passivate(Object instance)
          throws IOException

Passivates the object tree starting with the bean instance provided.

Parameters:

instance - The bean instance to serialize

Returns:

the serialized byte array of the bean instance

Throws:

IOException

activate

Object activate(byte[] bytes)
         throws IOException,
                ClassNotFoundException

Activates a bean instance from the given serialized bytes.

Parameters:

bytes - The serialized byte stream of a bean instance

Returns:

the serialized byte array of the bean instance

Throws:

IOException

ClassNotFoundException