Introduction to Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE

This chapter describes Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI) which is one of several Java EE features that help to knit together the web tier and the transactional tier of the Java EE platform.

The following topics are addressed here:

Getting Started
Overview of CDI
About Beans
About CDI Managed Beans
Beans as Injectable Objects
Using Qualifiers
Injecting Beans
Using Scopes
Giving Beans EL Names
Adding Setter and Getter Methods
Using a Managed Bean in a Facelets Page
Injecting Objects by Using Producer Methods
Configuring a CDI Application
Using the @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy Annotations with CDI Managed Bean Classes
Further Information about CDI