Weld 3.0.0.Alpha4

2015-2-5   release , cdi2   Jozef Hartinger

Here we are again with the next Alpha release of Weld 3. This time there are no additional CDI 2.0 previews. Instead, this release contains multiple performance improvements, enables @Asynchronous calls to be implemented simply with CDI interceptors and most importantly, it comes with weld-probe.

Weld Probe

Why isn’t my field injected? Why isn’t my interceptor triggered? What extensions do third-party libraries register?

Have you ever found yourself asking a similar question? Making Weld developer-friendly and helpful in troubleshooting is our priority. Yet, similar problems still occur sometimes.

But we can do event better! In Alpha4 of Weld 3 we are introducing a new tool called Weld Probe. Probe is a built-in tool that provides a detailed view into internals of a CDI application. Weld Probe has a web UI and is provided out-of-the-box.

Probe makes it easy to inspect:

  • beans, their properties such as qualifiers, stereotypes and name

  • a graph of bean dependencies

  • observers and producers declared by beans

  • interceptors and decorators bound to a bean

  • extensions

  • information about current contextual instances

  • tracking of invocations and invocation trees

Plus more addons are planned in future.

Weld Probe Screenshot

To try probe all that needs to be done is to upgrade to Alpha4, enable the development mode and point your browser to the URL of your CDI application plus /weld-probe suffix.

For more thorough overview of what Probe provides see Martin’s blog post or the reference documentation.

Bear in mind that Probe is still work in progress and that this early preview may have defects here and there.

Implementing @Asynchronous using CDI interceptor

It is possible to implement a substitute for EJB @Asynchronous method calls using CDI interceptors. Arjan Tijms recently blogged about his solution A similar one can be found in Weld’s testsuite. Long story short: This would not work smoothly until now because of a limitation in Weld. This limitation is now gone in Alpha4.

Performance

This release integrates various runtime performance improvements mainly around bean instance construction, producer and observer method invocation.

Next

Weld 3.0.0.Alpha5 is planned in 3 weeks time from now, with some more CDI 2.0 previews. We are going to continue releasing Alpha versions of Weld 3.0 roughly every 3 weeks until the early draft of CDI 2.0, which should happen sometime in March. At that point, we’ll move to Beta releases.

In the meantime, we’d like to hear your feedback on Probe or on Weld 3.0 Alpha releases in general. Feel free to use our forums or #weld-dev on freenode

[ Experimental API documentation ] [ Release notes ] [ Distribution ] [ Patch for Wildfly (8.2, 9 Alpha) ]