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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

Glassfish


Glassfish comes bundled with JBoss Weld 1.1.8.Final as the default CDI implementation. As with JBoss AS7, we have the choice of using the version that is there already or upgrading to the latest version.

If we don't already have Glassfish installed, download the latest release from http://glassfish.java.net/public/downloadsindex.html#top and either run the installation program or extract the contents of the ZIP, depending on our operating system and which installation format we chose. We will refer to the location where we installed Glassfish as GLASSFISH_HOME.

Note

At the time of publication, the most recent download for Glassfish was 3.1.2.2 and is available at http://glassfish.java.net/downloads/3.1.2.2-final.html.

As Glassfish uses OSGI bundles for the various pieces that make up the entire server environment, the download of JBoss Weld from earlier does not contain an appropriate JAR that we can use as a replacement for the server.

The appropriate JBoss Weld OSGI bundle, for...