Ah so it was Web Beans that got the name change / is the same as CDI not
Weld. Thanks for the clarification. Is Weld the RI for CDI?
-Noah
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com> wrote:
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> 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".
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> Doh forgot the link:
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> http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299
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> Paul.
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