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JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform

By : Kenneth Finnigan
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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

Overview of the application


The application that we will build with CDI is one that we will all be familiar with, that of an online book store! Though we don't intend to develop the application to the level of complexity that is provided by Amazon.com, it will provide a good overview of using CDI within an application for us to explore various aspects of its development.

The entities our application will require are as follows:

  • User: This entity will hold the user login credentials, and is applicable to customers and internal site administrators.

  • Account: This entity is used for capturing additional information that only applies to customers, such as addresses, and it will be the link to any orders that a customer may place.

  • Category: This entity defines a grouping that a book is part of.

  • Author: This entity specifies an author within the application that can be linked to a book.

  • Book: This entity captures all the information about a particular book, and links to the category and author associated...