On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
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> On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:27 PM, NBW wrote:
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>> Hi Paul,
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>> Not to pick on details but my understanding is that CDI is Weld.
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> 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.
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>> 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'.
>>
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> JSR 299 was originally called Web Beans. See here:
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> 2009.01.26:
> The name of the JSR was changed from "Web Beans" to "Contexts and
> Dependency Injection for Java".
>
Doh forgot the link:
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299
Paul.