New Article: Dependency Injection in Java EE 6

[asookazian]

http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=DependencyInjectioninJavaEE6

[asookazian]

Very decent article (intro) to CDI by Reza Rahman.  I noticed that the following is still the title/name for JSF299: JSR 299: Web Beans.

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299

I thought it was CDI for Java EE now?

There are two types of conversations in CDI -- transient which basically corresponds to a JSF request cycle and long-running which is controlled by you via the Conversion.begin and Conversion.end calls.

What happened to the @Begin and @End annotations like in Seam??  Must it be only programmatic in CDI/Weld now?

[nickarls]

It is left to the implementations how to handle this. Seam3 will most probably provide a @Begin and @End that will call Conversation.begin and Conversation.end.

[asookazian]

What is the status of Seam 3?  Most probably indicates that it's not near completion...

[pmuir]

Pre-alpha currently, tho we expect to have some of the modules in beta or even release state pretty soon (e.g. perhaps before Christmas).