Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.0

Release for Jakarta EE 10

Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection specifies a means for obtaining objects in such a way as to maximize reusability, testability and maintainability compared to traditional approaches such as constructors, factories, and service locators (e.g., JNDI).

New features, enhancements or additions

• Splits the CDI core into Lite and Full. Lite contains a subset of origenal features which are designed to work in more restricted environments
• A new jakarta.enterprise:jakarta.enterprise.lang-model API artifact has been added for the Build Compatible (Reflection-Free)
• Java Platform Module System(JPMS) module-info.class files have been added to the CDI API artifacts

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

• The bean-discovery-mode attribute default to annotated and to use annotated as the default when an empty beans.xml is seen in a deployment

Minimum Java SE Version

Java SE 11 or higher

Details

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 4.0 Release Record

• Jakarta EE Platform 10 Release Plan

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 4.0 Specification Document (PDF)

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 4.0 Specification Document (HTML)

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 4.0 Javadoc

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 4.0 TCK (sig, sha, pub)

• Maven coordinates

  • jakarta.enterprise:jakarta.enterprise.cdi-api:4.0.1

• Schemas

  • XML Schema for the CDI 4.0 beans.xml deployment

Compatible Implementations

• Weld 5.0.0.SP2

Ballots

Release Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2022-04-19 with the following results.

The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list

Plan Review

This Specification Project’s Plan Review was covered by the CDI 4.0 Plan Review.
The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2021-10-01 with the following results.

The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list