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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

JBoss Weld distribution


For installing JBoss Weld into a Servlet container, or updating the version within a Java EE 6 container, we need to download the latest release of Weld 1.1.x from http://seamframework.org/Weld/Downloads. Once downloaded, extract the contents of the ZIP file to a local directory such as C:\Weld.

Note

At the time of publication the most recent release of JBoss Weld is 1.1.10.Final.

Taking a look at the contents of C:\Weld\weld-1.1.10.Final\artifacts\weld, we can see source and javadoc JARs for the following libraries:

  • weld-api.jar: These are the extensions to the CDI API

  • weld-core.jar: This is the JBoss Weld implementation of CDI

  • weld-se.jar: This is the JAR for Java SE that contains all required classes from CDI and JBoss Weld

  • weld-se-core.jar: This is the JBoss Weld support for Java SE, which is included within weld-se.jar

  • weld-servlet.jar: This is the JAR for Servlet containers that contains all required classes from CDI and JBoss Weld

  • weld-servlet-core.jar: This...