Hi,

I'll probably vote +1 but wanted to comment this point 

> a.) What is this for? -> no one knows

As I was away for a long time (Launching Agorava) I won't comment this

> b.) Do we need it in DeltaSpike? -> not yet.

Yes you're probably right : we have more important things to deal with now

> c.) Do we need it for JSF? -> No, JSF has it's own Converter logic

Yes, but JSF is not the only use case for using  CDI

> d.) Do we need it somewhere else? -> No, not afaik

That's the point I don't agree with. I'm working on Java EE 6 POCS for a 
customer. One go this POC is a full rest application using HTML5 techs on 
client and Jax-RS / CDI  and other Java EE tech on the server. It's obvious 
that a converter framework would be very useful here since we won't have JSF to 
deal with it. We'll have to create some batch POC, again converter would be 
nice.

In fact it questions the goals of DS. We all agree on the fact that DS should 
provide a way to ease CDI extension development. But beyond that should it 
provide only tools ease to JSF development or should it be more ambitious by 
bringing missing features for the whole Java EE 6 stack. You probably guessed 
that I prefer the second solution ;-).

Antoine Sabot-Durand
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