Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE: Advanced Topics

27 Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE: Advanced Topics

This chapter describes more advanced features of Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI). Specifically, it covers additional features CDI provides to enable loose coupling of components with strong typing, in addition to those described in Overview of CDI.

The following topics are addressed here:

Packaging CDI Applications
Using Alternatives in CDI Applications
Using Producer Methods, Producer Fields, and Disposer Methods in CDI Applications
Using Predefined Beans in CDI Applications
Using Events in CDI Applications
Using Interceptors in CDI Applications
Using Decorators in CDI Applications
Using Stereotypes in CDI Applications
Using the Built-In Annotation Literals
Using the Configurators Interfaces