In Relation To

UPDATE: The files are now back on SourceForge, but the links take you to the general JBoss page - search for Seam or Web Beans.

I just submitted the Proposed Final Draft of JSR-299, Contexts and Dependency Injection, to the JCP. Download it here[1]. We're gearing up for a final release in August, in time for the Java EE 6 release in September. Thanks to everyone who put so much effort into this!

Great to see that IntelliJ are already working on their support for JSR-299.

Eduardo just posted a slide cast from the webinar. Check them out if you haven't managed to catch a JCDI presentation in the flesh!

Last week I recorded a couple of podcasts. The first one, with Nitin from DZone, gives a good overview of where we are going with Web Beans and Seam 3 - we talk about what JCDI is, how it fits into Seam 3, and the migration path.

We've been busy with the JSR-299 specification (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE) over the last couple of weeks, preparing to submit a Proposed Final Draft in early June. At this point I would like to solicit feedback from the community on the recent changes, so I'm posting a current revision of the specification[1] here.

One of the nice new features in the latest draft of JSR-299 is the ability to inject a reference to all beans of a certain type, for example:

I'm giving a webinar on JSR-299 on Gassfish TV

Google and Spring are proposing a JSR to standardize a set of dependency injection related annotations. I've been asked by several people to comment on this and how it relates to JSR-299.