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Java EE CDI - Inject beans from external (3rd party) libraries example

23 June 2013

In this tutorial we will see how to inject beans from external - or 3d party - libraries in Java EE CDI

When we need an external JAR to be scanned by a Java EE container for CDI beans we must define the JAR as a target for CDI bean scanning, ie. via beans.xml file. What if the JAR is provided by an exte... Read more

Java EE CDI programmatic dependency disambiguation example - Injection Point inspection

08 June 2013

In this tutorial we will see how to implement Java EE CDI dependency disambiguation in a programmatic (or dynamic) way by inspecting injection points. The same applies for programmatic dependency resolution at runtime.

In Java EE CDI it is possible to provide multiple implementations of a given interface - or service - to the service clients. In this tutorial we will see how to implement a dynamic mechanism for fetc... Read more

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Java EE CDI dependency disambiguation example

01 June 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to inject multiple interface implementations with Java EE CDI (dependency disambiguation) avoiding org.jboss.weld.exceptions.DeploymentException: WELD-001409 Ambiguous dependencies for type [...] with qualifiers [...] at injection point [...]

In Java EE CDI it is possible to provide multiple implementations of a given interface - or service - to the service clients. The client should then be responsible for selecting the desired service im... Read more

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Java EE CDI Dependency Injection (@Inject) tutorial

25 May 2013

In this tutorial you will learn about the different ways to use @Inject annotation in order to perform Dependency Injection with Java EE CDI.

Java EE CDI makes primarily use of the @Inject annotation in order to perform Dependency Injection of managed beans into other container managed resources. In this tutorial we will cover the different... Read more

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Java EE CDI beans deployed in external library (WEB-INF/lib JAR file)

20 May 2013

In this tutorial we will see how to deploy CDI beans contained in an external JAR file avoiding org.jboss.weld.exceptions.DeploymentException: WELD-001408 Unsatisfied dependencies for type [...] with qualifiers [@...] at injection point ... exception.

One of the objectives of the beans.xml file in a CDI application is to notify the container where to search for CDI managed beans. In this short tutorial we will see how to configure a JAR file - cont... Read more

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Java EE CDI Disposer methods example

04 May 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to use CDI Disposer methods in order to perform clean up of resources created by CDI Producer methods.

CDI Producer methods may be used to create resources that are consumed by an application in a very specific context. These resources may need to be cleaned up by the container when the application doe... Read more

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Java EE CDI Producer methods tutorial

27 April 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to use CDI Producer methods in order to provide a flexible bean initialization mechanism. Concepts like polymorphism, disambiguation and CDI scopes will also be discussed as we proceed in the tutorial.

Java EE CDI introduced a concept called Producer. Producers may be used to create - or produce - bean instances to be consumed by an application. Producers are also able to provide specific interface ... Read more

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Java EE CDI ConversationScoped example

13 April 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to use ConversationScoped CDI beans.

As we have seen previously on Java EE CDI bean scopes CDI provides a set of available built-in bean scopes. One of these scopes is the Conversation scope. In this tutorial we will see how this scope c... Read more

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