I'll be speaking at Utah JUG on Thursday, Oct 21 about CDI, Seam 3 and Arquillian. I'll also get a chance to meet for the first time in person one the Seam 3 community developers, Jason Porter. Jason works on Seam Catch, the exception handling process based on the CDI event bus.

Here's the abstract for my talk. Hopefully the whimsical title will convince you all to come out

CDI and Seam 3: What's the story and how do I test it?

 

In the first of this two-part session, Dan will provide an overview of Seam 3, a powerful Open Source development platform for building rich Internet applications in Java EE.

 

The talk begins with an overview of JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI). CDI is the new core programming model in both Java EE 6 and Seam 3 and therefore the most prominent aspect of this stack. It provides services for managed and enterprise beans that include dependency injection, contextual life cycle management, interceptors and event notification. It also includes an extensible SPI for developing additional portable functionality and customization, a key enabler for Seam 3.

 

Seam 3 extends the CDI programming model by providing portable enhancements, extensions and integrations that tie together technologies within and beyond the Java EE platform into a full-stack solution, complete with tooling. You'll discover how this stack is used to address common business concerns and then look ahead at what else is on the menu for Seam 3.

 

After the whirlwind tour of CDI and Seam 3, we'll ask the question "How do I test this stuff?" That's where Arquillian comes in.

 

Arquillian is a container-oriented testing framework, layered atop TestNG and JUnit, that brings your test to the runtime rather than requiring you to manage the runtime from your test. In doing so, it provides the missing link in enterprise Java development: simple, portable integration tests. We'll walk through example after example until the sun goes down so you can see that Arquillian is the future of enterprise testing, and there's no limit to what you can test with Arquillian in your toolbox.

See you there!