On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:27 PM, NBW wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Not to pick on details but my understanding is that CDI is Weld.
Weld is an implementation of CDI (JSR 299). Jersey is an
implementation of JAX-RS (JSR 311). Each is the reference
implementations for the respective JSR.
> To paraphrase a story I've heard from Gavin King, the reason being
> that the name was changed was that that they needed to change to a 3
> letter acronym to appease the EE spec 'gods'.
>
JSR 299 was originally called Web Beans. See here:
2009.01.26:
The name of the JSR was changed from "Web Beans" to "Contexts and
Dependency Injection for Java".
Paul.