Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1

Release for Jakarta EE 11

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

Several minor issues in the Specification, APIs and TCK will be addresses as detailed in the CDI 4.1 Milestone The overview of currently suggested topics includes:

• Breaking up spec/TCK to remove circular dependencies
• Delegate integration requirements to the Jakarta Platform specifications
• Method invokers
• Executable methods
• Getting interceptor bindings in standard way
• @Priority on producers
• Review unused imports in classes in CDI 4
• How can getReference() legally be invoked during AfterDeploymentValidation event if contexts have not been created
• Programmatic access to Assignability rules
• Add methods to BeanConfigurator for applying decorators
• List of potential changes/features for next CDI version
• Improve wording of managed bean requirements WRT non-static public fields
• Inconsistent behavior when finding unproxyable bean ( possibly remove the references to the Managed Beans specification
• possible rename of Jakarta Bean Validation to Jakarta Validation
• Assignability of raw and parameterized types for type variables with multiple bounds (CDI-440) spec-clarificationAn issue requesting clarification in the specification

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

• The Expression Language SPI methods on the BeanManager will be deprecated in preparation for a move to a new subinterface that will be part of a new artifact. This removes the dependency on the Jakarta Expression Language from core API, and refactors features that are not client facing into the subinterface.

Minimum Java SE Version

Java SE 11 or higher

Details

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 4.1 Release Record

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 4.1 Specification Document (PDF)

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 4.1 Specification Document (HTML)

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 4.1 Javadoc

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 4.1.0 TCK (sig, sha, pub)

• Maven coordinates

  • jakarta.enterprise:jakarta.enterprise.cdi-api:4.1.0
  • jakarta.enterprise:jakarta.enterprise.lang-model:4.1.0
  • jakarta.enterprise:jakarta.enterprise.cdi-el-api:4.1.0

• Schemas

  • XML Schema for the CDI 4.1 beans.xml deployment
  • The only change in the schema is the version number. The schema is backward compatible with CDI 4.0.

Compatible Implementations

• Weld 6.0.0.Beta1

Ballots

Release Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2024-04-02 with the following results.

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

Restructuring Review

This Specification Project’s Restructuring Review is covered by the CDI 4.1 Plan Review.

The Specification Committee Ballot completed on 8th December 2023.

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

Plan Review

This Specification Project’s Plan Review will be covered by the CDI 4.1 Plan Review.

The Specification Committee Ballot completed on 11th July 2023.

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