Next Release of CDI RI?

[thejavafreak]

All with the JSR-299 changed name to CDI, will there any difference of the WebBeans RI that has been released few months ago? Should I wait for the CDI RI? Or there's no difference compared to WebBeans RI?

Thanks in advance

[graben]

Hi Joshua,

I don't know which release do you mean but I think you mean either alpha1 or alpha2 of the webbeans ri. well you do not have to wait for an cdi ri since webbeans ri is still the reference implementation of the jsr 299. So there is no and won't be any difference.

Regards Benjamin

[nickarls]

(in fact there won't be any CDI RI at all since the name will remain Web Beans for the RI) :-)

[thejavafreak]

Nicklas Karlsson wrote on Feb 18, 2009 15:25:


(in fact there won't be any CDI RI at all since the name will remain Web Beans for the RI) :-)

So JCDI is only used amongst JCP members? But the marketing term for RI itself is WebBeans? Is that what you're trying to say? Is the latest WebBeans RI still comply with JCDI spec?

[nickarls]

I think JCDI is only used among three or four people in the entire world (and they are in the EG), the rest still use the term Web Beans ;-)

Yes. The Web Beans RI will sooner or later pass the TCK for the JSR-299

[pmuir]

Nik, to avoid confusion, we should say Web Beans, the RI (reference implementation) of JSR-299.

Just as other RIs have names (e.g. the Java EE RI is called Glassfish), so does the RI of JSR-299 :-)

[thejavafreak]

So the Spec itself is called JCDI, but the implementation is called Webbeans?

[nickarls]

Close, but not exacly ;-)

The implementation developed here is called Web Beans. There are (or will be) other implementations of the said spec, e.g. OpenWebBeans from the ASF.