Chapter 8. Writing a Portable Extension
As CDI was never intended to be a stationary target, only being enhanced and updated as part of a JSR, a series of SPIs (Service Provider Interfaces) are exposed by CDI so that developers like us can extend and enhance CDI through portable extensions.
We'll look at how to create a portable extension, what is the container lifecycle and how it can be utilized in creating additional functionality in CDI, how we can consume CDI beans from non-CDI beans, and some example extensions to provide an idea of what can be achieved.
What is a portable extension?
A portable extension is a Java Service Provider that is retrieved during container startup by Weld and notified at each stage of the container lifecycle, based ...
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