Web Beans RI 1.0.0.Alpha1 Available
Dec 22nd, 2008 by sharps
JBoss is responsible for producing the Reference Implementation of JSR-299 (aka Web Beans) and Pete Muir(the RI lead) has just announced that the first Alpha release is available. Reference Implementations are useful in that they demonstrate that the specification is practical and can actually be implemented; it also allows people to evaluate the technology (ie. write some code) vs. just read the specification.
For an overview of Web Beans, Gavin (spec. lead) has written a five part series :
- Part I – Introducing Web Beans
- Part II – Injection, binding annotations and component types
- Part III – Declaring components using XML
- Part IV – Scopes, contexts and resolver methods
- Part V – Interceptors and events
There’s also the new Reference Guide written by Gavin and Pete to get you up to speed. Then you’re ready to download AS 5.0.0 and the Web Beans Alpha.
[...] You’ll need JBoss AS 5 to run it in (download, getting started guide). If this is all new to you – I collected some useful links for Web Beans / JCDI here. [...]