For Observers maybe we can find another way to achieve OPENEJB-2082 without binding one observer directly to another:
public void observe(final @Observes(after = SimpleObserver.class) SimpleEvent event) I can see that creating just as much of a mess as having too many events. Having to sort each event is not exactly optimal for speed either. If we were to take a sorting based approach, maybe we can take a page from the interceptor ordering of Java EE 7, based on unix start orders: @Priority(5) public void observe(final @Observes SimpleEvent event) Default priority for all observers would be say, 5, like it is for a thread. We would recommend 1-10 as the range and use a float rather than an int so it can be easy to break a tie without complex hacking. Also as an optimization, we don't actually call the sort method unless one of the Observers actually has a priority. Thoughts? -David
