Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 5.0 (Under development)

Release for Jakarta EE 12

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).

A complete list of issues and pull requests for this version can be viewed using CDI 5.0 Milestone and CDI TCK 5.0 Milestone in their respective GitHub repositories.

New features, enhancements or additions

Currently suggested topics includes:

• Increase minimal Java version to 17, possibly to 21
• Introduction a way to eagerly initialize CDI beans
• Allow registering BuildCompatibleExtension programmatically in CDI SE
• Define how InjectionPoint works when a bean is obtained via CDI.current()
• Restrict how synthetic beans registered via BuildCompatibleExtension declare their injection points
• Introduction of tests for unproxyability of sealed classes
• Introduction of tests for records in the TCK lang model
• Multiple small specification clarifications

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

• Removal of SecurityManager usage and references
• Removal of deprecated methods from BeanManager API
  • These are method related to EL and are replaced in ElAwareBeanManager since CDI 4.1

Minimum Java SE Version

Java SE 17 or higher

Details

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 5.0 Release Record

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 5.0 Specification Document (PDF)

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 5.0 Specification Document (HTML)

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 5.0 Javadoc

• Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection 5.0.0 TCK (sig, sha, pub)

• Maven coordinates

  • jakarta.enterprise:jakarta.enterprise.cdi-api:5.0.0
  • jakarta.enterprise:jakarta.enterprise.lang-model:5.0.0
  • jakarta.enterprise:jakarta.enterprise.cdi-el-api:5.0.0

• Schemas

  • XML Schema for the CDI 5.0 beans.xml deployment
  • The only change in the schema is the version number. The schema is backward compatible with CDI 4.1.

Compatible Implementations

• Weld 7.0.0 TBD

Ballots

Release Review

The Specification Committee Ballot is TBD.

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 5.0 Plan Review.

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2025-03-24 with the following results.

Non-binding Votes

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