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Re: [Jersey] Appeal to jersey developers for better+reliable javax.inject/cdi/weld support

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:32:58 +0200

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.