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...

This week we are releasing three new builds of Weld. Firstly, Weld 2.1.2.Final was released. This is a bug-fixing release with 11 issues resolved. Most notably: The conversation context is now initialized lazily. This resolves the problem with custom character encoding that many of you run into. See the reference documentation for details. Weld now runs fine on JDK8 Jetty 9.1 is now supported by weld-servlet In addition, Weld...

Weld 2.1.1.Final was released. More than 20 issues were addressed in this release. See the release notes for details. Thanks to everyone involved in this release! [ Distribution ] [ Release notes ] [ Documentation ] [ CDI 1.1 Javadoc ]

I am pleased to announce that Weld 2.1.0.Final has just been released. Weld is the reference implementation of Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI). Here is the highlight of what’s new in Weld 2.1.0: OSGi support with Pax CDI Improved runtime performance and memory consumption Better integration with various Servlet dispatch types SLF4j was replaced with jboss-logging 30 fixed bugs The future of Weld-OSGi Weld...