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What Is CDI, How Does It Relate to @EJB And Spring?

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A brief overview of dependency injection in Java EE, the difference between @Resource/@EJB and @Inject, and how does that all relate to Spring – mostly in the form of links.

Context Dependency Injection (CDI, JSR 299) is a part of Java EE 6 Web Profile and itself builds on Dependency Injection for Java (JSR 330), which introduces @Inject, @Named etc. While JSR 330 is for DI only and is implemented e.g. by Guice and Spring, CDI adds various EE stuff such as @RequestScoped, interceptors/decorators, producers, eventing and a base for integration with JSF, EJBs etc. Java EE components such as EJBs have been redefined to build on top of CDI (=> @Stateless is now a CDI managed bean with additional services).

A key part of CDI aside of its DI capabilities is its awarness of bean contexts and the management of bean lifecycle and dependencies within those contexts (such as @RequestScoped or @ConversationScoped).

CDI is extensible – you can define new context scopes, drop-in interceptors and decorators, make other beans (e.g. from Spring) available for CDI,… .

Resources to check:

  • Contexts and Dependency Injection in Java EE 6 by Adam Bien – a very good explanation of the basics of CDI and how it differs from DI in Java EE 5 (hint: context awarness)
  • Slideshow with a good overview of CDI and all it offers
  • About CDI extensibility and SPIs (e.g. Seam 3 is basically a set of portable CDI extensions)
  • Guice and Spring do not implement CDI (3/2011) – and Spring perhaps isn’t motivated to do so (it supports JSR 330, CDI would be too much work)
  • DZone CDI Refcard may be handy
  • CDI 1.0 vs. Spring 3.1 feature comparsion: bean definition & dependency injection: “in the area that I compared in this article [= DI], there is only little critical difference in the two technologies” (though Spring more fine-tunable)
  • Java EE 6 (CDI / EJB 3.1) XOR Spring Core Reloaded: New projects should preferably start with pure Java EE including CDI and add Spring utilities such as JDBC/JMS when needed
  • Oracle: CDI in the Java EE 6 Ecosystem – 62 pages slideshow, the stuff is explained more than in the previously mentioned slideshow

Note: CDI 1.1 (JSR 346, Java EE 7) should have a standard way of bootstrapping it in non-EE environment (i.e. SE)

 

From http://theholyjava.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/what-is-cdi-how-does-it-relate-to-ejb-and-spring/

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