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JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform

By : Kenneth Finnigan
Book Image

JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform

By: Kenneth Finnigan

Overview of this book

CDI simplifies dependency injection for modern application developers by taking advantage of Java annotations and moving away from complex XML, while at the same time providing an extensible and powerful programming model. "JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform" is a practical guide to CDI's dependency injection concepts using clear and easy-to-follow examples. This will help you take advantage of the power behind CDI, as well as providing a firm understanding of how to use it within your applications. "JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform" covers all the major aspects of CDI, breaking it down into understandable pieces. This book will take you through many examples of how these concepts can be utilized, helping you get up and running quickly and painlessly. "JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform" gives you an insight into the different scopes provided by CDI and the use cases for which each has been designed. You will learn everything about dependency injection, scopes, events, producers, and more from JBoss Weld CDI, as well as how producers can create new beans for consumption within your application. You will also learn how to build a real world application with CDI using JSF and AngularJS for different web interfaces.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

JBoss AS


JBoss AS7 comes bundled with v1.1.5.Final of JBoss Weld as the default CDI implementation, so we have the choice of using this version with our CDI applications or deciding to upgrade to a more recent version, if available.

When we make the decision to upgrade JBoss Weld, we need to ensure that we are gaining an advantage by doing so, else we could possibly introduce issues into an otherwise stable application server. If our application experiences issues with JBoss Weld that have been resolved in a recent version, upgrading our application server to take advantage of those fixes is definitely a good decision.

If we don't already have it installed, download the latest release of JBoss AS7 from http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads/ and extract the ZIP contents. We will refer to the location where the ZIP was extracted to as AS7_HOME.

Note

At the time of publication, the most recent binary available for JBoss AS7 is 7.1.1.Final.

With the use of a module system for JBoss AS7, it's very...