Tag Archives: cdi

CDI (2.0) Async Events

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Abhishek

Glassfish 5 builds for Java EE 8 are rolling along… here is another Docker based example on Github. This time it’s asynchronous events in CDI 2.0 (JSR 365) Steps Just follow the README… just a bunch of docker commands to get … Continue reading →

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Redis CDI example….

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Abhishek

Here is an example of a CDI producer for Redis using the Jedis (Java) client for Redis. Check out the project README to get this up and running…. Below is a quick summary Use of CDI Qualifier Two types of … Continue reading →

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Using CDI with Java EE Concurrency Utilities

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Abhishek

This blog post explores usage of CDI along with Java EE Concurrency Utilities – specifically using CDI beans as managed tasks. Here is the sample application on Github Lets begin with a quick overview Java EE Concurrency Utilities provides APIs … Continue reading →

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Trending Meetup groups with Redis and Java EE

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Abhishek

This is an application which displays the currently trending Meetup groups based on their (live) RSVPs feed. It’s built using Java EE 7 (uses WebSocket client & server APIs, Singleton EJB timers and CDI events to wire things up) and … Continue reading →

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WebSocket and CDI integration.. again..

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Abhishek

In one of my older blog posts, I had written about what does not work as far as WebSocket and CDI integration within the Java EE Platform 😉 This one talks about what’s possible with CDI in terms of Dependency Injection Interceptors … Continue reading →

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CDI freebies a.k.a built-in beans

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Abhishek

Generally speaking, The CDI programming model has pre-requisite requirements for beans which are lucky enough to leverage its services (DI, contextual state management etc.). This ranges from typical Java EE Managed Beans, EJB (session) beans etc. (I’ll leave the details … Continue reading →

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Dynamic event qualifiers in CDI

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Abhishek

CDI Events CDI events allow your application components to communicate with each other in a loosely coupled manner. Those more familiar with JMS can also think of CDI events as a Synchronous equivalent of JMS (with Java EE 8, CDI … Continue reading →

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Native CDI Qualifiers: @Any and @Default

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Abhishek

Let’s take a look at the out-of-the-box qualifiers in CDI There are three qualifiers declared by the CDI specification – @Any, @Default, @New @Any: Think of it as an omnipresent qualifier. It’s there even if its not 😉 @Default: As … Continue reading →

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Simplifying JAX-RS caching with CDI

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Abhishek

This post explains (via a simple example) how you can use CDI Producers to make it a little easier to leverage cache control semantics in your RESTful services The Cache-Control header was added in HTTP 1.1 as a much needed … Continue reading →

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Valid CDI scopes for Session (EJB) beans

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Abhishek

CDI enriches the EJB specification (Session beans to be specific) by providing contextual life cycle management. Session beans are not ‘contextual’ instances in general. If you are comfortable with CDI in general, the idea of ‘being contextual’ should be pretty … Continue reading →

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