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Weld 2.3.1.Final arrives...

2015-10-27   release   Martin Kouba

Weld 2.3.1.Final has been released! The delivery: a few killed bugs, couple of Weld SE enhancements and several Weld Probe improvements.

Notable bug-fixes and enhancements:

  • Private producer, disposer and observer methods should be intercepted (WELD-2043)

  • Specializing bean - remove @Default qualifier unless explicitly declared (WELD-2046)

  • Weld SE

    • Fix the development mode enablement

    • Allow to pass a ResourceLoader to be used for scanning (WELD-2044)

    • Allow to skip the registration of a shutdown hook (WELD-2051)

  • Weld Probe now supports monitoring of container lifecycle events during bootstrap (see also supported configuration properties)

[ CDI 1.2 API ] [ Download ] [ Documentation ] [ Release notes ]

Weld 2.3.0.Final released!

2015-9-18   release   Martin Kouba

Weld 2.3.0.Final has been just released! From now on, 2.3 is the current stable version of Weld and 2.2 is not actively developed anymore - i.e. no new features are added, only bugs will be fixed. Weld 2.3 will remain a CDI 1.2 implementation. We are incrementing the minor version due to several new features added. Weld 2.3 is also included in WildFly 10 application server.

Notable features and changes:

  • Java 6 support was dropped - Java 7 is the minimal requirement for building and running Weld 2.3

  • Weld 2.3 comes with a special mode for application development, the Probe development tool allows to inspect application CDI components at runtime

  • Weld SE Bootstrap API was enhanced in many ways - new features are mostly backported from Weld 3 development branch

  • Weld Servlet now supports Undertow web server

  • Revised delivery of @Initialized/@Destroyed events for @ApplicationScoped in an EAR (see also WELD-1821)

[ CDI 1.2 API ] [ Download ] [ Documentation ] [ Release notes ]

Weld 2.2.16.SP1

In addition, Weld 2.2.16.SP1 has been also released. It’s a bugfix release for 2.2 branch.

[ Weld 2.2.16.Final Release notes ] [ Weld 2.2.16.SP1 Release notes ]

JDK 8u60 reveals a problem in Weld

2015-9-15   bug , jdk   Martin Kouba

Recently released JDK 8u60 has revealed a problem in Weld where not all synthetic members were ignored correctly. This has been fixed in 2.2.16.Final, 2.3.0.CR2 and 3.0.0.Alpha14 (not released yet). However, if not using a lambda referencing an event/disposed parameter inside an observer/disposer method, your application is most probably not affected. See also the related issue - WELD-2019.

Use case

If there is a lambda referencing an event/disposed parameter inside an observer/disposer method, the compiler creates a synthetic method with the event parameter as one of the method parameters. Since 8u60 the parameter annotations are preserved even for the synthetic method. And so Weld incorrectly recognizes these synthetic methods as observer/disposer methods.

Symptoms

You may get WELD-000409: Observer method for container lifecycle event can only…​ if using such a lambda in an extension or even WELD-001408 Unsatisfied dependencies for type…​ if using such a lambda in a regular observer and the lambda is using more references (i.e. not only event/disposed parameter) - these are also the method parameters of the synthetic method, and in CDI these additional parameters are injection points.

Example

class Foo {
      void observe(@Observes @Juicy String payload) {
        Arrays.asList("foo").stream().filter((s) -> s.equals(payload));
      }
    }

A synthetic method is created for the lambda and the event parameter is passed as a method parameter. The annotations are preserved. As a result Weld creates two observer methods having the same event parameter: @Observes @Juicy String payload.

Workaround

Instead of the event parameter reference use an additional local variable with the same value assigned:

public void observe(@Observes @Juicy String payload) {
       String p = payload;
       Arrays.asList("foo").stream().filter((s) -> s.equals(p));
    }

Weld team changes

2015-9-8   team   Jozef Hartinger

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 on a different project. I truly enjoyed working on Weld and with the CDI community. Now after almost 4 years on the project I was given an exciting opportunity which I decided to pursuit.

Last but not least, Matěj Novotný is joining the team as a quality engineer. He’s going to work on expanding our testsuites and making sure Weld releases do not break anything :-)

Weld 3.0.0.Alpha12 - CDI 2.0 EDR1 Reference Implementation!

2015-8-5   release , cdi2   Martin Kouba

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(CDI<Object> cdi = CDI.getCDIProvider().initialize()) {
            ComputingService service = cdi.select(ComputingService.class).get();
            service.compute();
        }
    }

javax.enterprise.inject.spi.CDI now implements AutoCloseable and can therefore be used in a try-with-resources block.

Note that the specification of the bean discovery process in Java SE is not finished yet. Therefore, bean archives which don’t contain a beans.xml file are not supported. The main reason is that we don’t want to implement a feature which is being discussed and will likely undergo some important changes. Nevertheless, the feature will be implemented in one of the next alpha versions.

Weld SE bootstrap API

How does it compare to Weld SE bootstrap API? Weld has provided support for the Java SE environment for a long time. Recently, the org.jboss.weld.environment.se.Weld class was turned into a powerful builder which allows to configure the Weld container before it is initialized.

Typical usage of the Weld SE API looks like this:

try (WeldContainer container = new Weld().initialize()) {
        ComputingService service = container.select(ComputingService.class).get();
        service.compute();
    }

This looks very similar to CDI SE, right? However, there are several advanced feratures available:

  • automatic scanning can be disabled, classes or packages can be selected explicitly

    • WeldContainer container = new Weld().disableDiscovery().beanClasses(Foo.class, Bar.class).alternatives(Bar.class).interceptors(FooInterceptor.class).initialize();

  • WeldContainer allows to fire events easily

    • container.event().select(Bar.class).fire(new Bar());

  • Weld-specific configuration options can be specified using the builder

  • it is possible to start multiple independent Weld instances (specification does not require this)

See also Weld 3.0.0.Alpha8 announcement for more information.

Asynchronous Events

An experimental support of asynchronous events is implemented in Weld since 3.0.0.Alpha3. However, in this release the API was aligned with CDI 2.0 EDR1:

class OrderProcessor {
    
        @Inject Event<Order> orderEvent;
    
        public void process(Order order) {
            orderEvent.fireAsync(order).thenAccept((o)->System.out.println("Asynchronous processing finished: " + o.getId()));
        }
    
        public void processingOrder(@Observes Order event) {
            // This observer is notified synchronously, before the fireAsync() method returns
        }
    
        public void asyncProcessingOrder(@ObservesAsync Order event) {
            // This observer is notified asynchronously, in a different thread
        }
    }

There are few important things to notice:

  • the event was triggered with fireAsync()

  • the asynchronous observer is defined by @ObservesAsync

  • synchronous observers defined by @Observes are also notified!

To sum it up:

Event method @Observes notified @ObservesAsync notified

fire()

yes, in the same thread

no

fireAsync()

yes, in the same thread

yes, in a different thread

Observers SPI Changes

javax.enterprise.inject.spi.ObserverMethod now extends javax.enterprise.inject.spi.Prioritized and overrides the ObserverMethod.getPriority() method which is used to determine the notification order in which the event observer methods are invoked. Prioritized interface is currently only used for observers. However, the Weld team is working on a prototype where Prioritized can be used to globally select/enable custom alternative beans, interceptors and decorators, see also WELD-2000.

Furthermore, ObserverMethod.isAsync() method was added to determine whether an observer method is asynchronous or not.

WildFly Patch

As usual, a patch for WildFly is available. This patch not only upgrades Weld within an existing WildFly instance but also upgrades CDI API to 2.0 EDR1. This time the target platform is WildFly 10.0.0.Alpha6. If you’re not familiar with patching WildFly, check Markus’s tutorial.

[ Experimental API documentation ] [ Release notes ] [ Distribution ] [ Patch for Wildfly 10 Alpha ]

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