I am pleased to announce a couple of changes coming to the Weld team: First of all, Martin will be taking over leadership of the project. Martin has proven himself to be an excellent engineer over all the years and I am happy that I can leave the project in his hands. His primary task is going to be leading the project towards the Weld 3 milestone. Secondly, I will be moving to work temporarily...

Weld 3.0.0.Alpha12 has been released. Compared to previous alpha releases this is an important milestone - it’s a reference implementation of CDI 2.0 Early Draft (EDR1). You can read more about CDI 2.0 EDR1 on the official blog: CDI 2.0 Early Draft Review 1 released. Bootstrapping a CDI container in Java SE Starting a CDI container is now really that easy: public static void main(String... args) { try...

Weld 3.0.0.Alpha8 has been released. The main change is the enhanced API for using Weld in Java SE environment. In addition, this release comes with several weld-probe improvements. Enhanced API for Weld SE Weld has provided support for the Java SE environment for a long time with the weld-se module. The API provides an easy way for an application to initialize Weld and use it in a standalone mode. On...

Weld 3.0.0.Alpha5, the latest release in the series of CDI 2.0 prototypes, has been released. The highlights of the release include new Bean builder API and many improvements to Weld Probe. Bean Builder API The common way for frameworks and libraries to expose their API to applications via CDI is by using producer methods. An alternative approach is a custom implementation of the javax.enterprise.inject.spi.Bean interface that is...

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...

Today we are releasing the third Alpha release of Weld 3. These Alpha releases serve as prototypes of changes currently being discussed by the CDI expert group for the upcoming CDI 2.0. The Alpha releases are not suitable for production use as the new API and functionality are still subject to change. We are releasing them to allow the community to test-drive the changes early in the development cycle. We want to shorten...

Today we are releasing Weld 3.0.0.Alpha1. This release serves as an early proof of concept of some of the ideas that are being discussed by the CDI Expert Group for the upcoming CDI 2.0 specification. Furthermore, this is a great opportunity for the community to test-drive some of the proposed improvements and provide us with feedback. Be warned though that this released does not come with any guarantee of stability...

Today, we released Weld 2.2.5.Final. The fifth mostly bug-fixing release in the series addresses 23 issues. In addition, the Servlet module got an update and among other things now supports: all three bean discovery modes (e.g. only explicitly annotated classes will be loaded as CDI beans) bean archive isolation using Jandex for faster deployment discovery See the reference documentation for details. Talking about documentation we are grateful to Antoine Sabot...

Today we released Weld 2.2.0.Final - the reference implementation of Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE 1.2 (CDI 1.2). Besides implementing the changes in the specification, this release comes with several new features, performance improvements and more than 50 bug fixes. CDI 1.2 CDI 1.2 is a maintenance release of the CDI specification. It contains a number of small fixes and clarifications as well as several enhancements. Most...

Work on a maintenance release of the CDI specification (CDI 1.2) has started recently. Now is the best time to add feedback on issues being addressed. Most of the discussion happens in the cdi-dev mailing list or the IRC channel. Weld 2.2 is going to be the reference implementation of CDI 1.2. Besides implementing the changes introduced in the maintenance release, we are going to focus on improving non-functional characteristics...