CDI 1.1 Public Review and Feedback
- by reza_rahman
CDI 1.1 is humming along nicely and recently released it's public review draft. Although it's just a point release, CDI 1.1 actually has a lot in it. Some the changes include:
The CDI class, which provides programmatic access to CDI facilities from outside a managed bean
Ability to veto beans declaratively using @Vetoed
Conversations in Servlet requests
Application lifecycle events in Java EE
Injection of Bean metadata into bean instances
Programmatic access to a container provided Producer, InjectionTarget, AnnotatedType
Ability to override attributes of a Bean via BeanAttributes
Ability to process modules via ProcessModule
Ability to wrap the InjectionPoint
Honor WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/beans.xml to activate WEB-INF/classes in a bean archive
Global ordering and enablement of interceptors and decorators
Global selection of alternatives
@New deprecated
Clarify interceptors and decorators must be implemented using proxying
Allow multiple annotated types per Java class
Allow Extensions to specify the annotations that they are interested in
The CDI 1.1 expert group has a number of open issues that they would like immediate feedback on. These include critical issues like bean visibility, startup events and restricting CDI scans. Read the details here and let your voice be heard!
