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One of the nicest features of CDI is the portable extension SPI. According to the spec:

In case you're like me, and you missed this when it was first published, check out Andy Schwartz's summary of what's new in JSF2. (Andy's one of the good guys on the JSF EG.) It's fun to compare the final product to my wishlist from back in '07. Oh, what innocent, carefree days...

Following up on my last blog entry about the next edition of the Hibernate bible, in the comments, Will Iverson (sorry Will, I hope that is really you, first Google hit) said that he would write ALL the code examples as JUnit test cases. Well, AFAIR that is what Will was trying with his Hibernate book a few years ago.

Gavin pointed out to me that my script to build the Weld distribution was broken, so I've create Weld 1.0.0 SP1 (Service Pack 1) which remedies this. You can now find Weld's sources and binaries in artifacts/weld and the CDI API source, javadoc and binary in artifacts/cdi. Download it from here.

William Drai has blogged about his experience integrating Granite DS and CDI.

I've written a couple of posts about using @Alternative to achieve deployment-time polymorphism. What I've never really talked about is its role in CDI modularity.

This is just too cool. That's a test coverage report. It doesn't report coverage of the RI code by the TCK. It reports coverage of the CDI specification by the TCK.

I'm pleased to announce the release of Weld 1.0.0 - the announcements have been flowing in over the last few days, but this is my favorite!

Mark Little, the CTO of JBoss, blogged about our vision for component models in JBoss platforms - he gives a great overview, describing how Seam (and JSR-299/Weld) will form the core programming model.

I've posted the CDI TCK 1.0.0 on seamframework.org. You can read the docs or download the TCK for your use.