Sunday 29 July 2012

JSF: CDI and EL

The Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) API introduced in Java EE 6 complements the JSF framework. There are good reasons to favour it over JavaServer Faces (JSF) managed bean mechanisms.

CDI doesn't do everything and there are edge cases where you might want to make use of Expression Language (EL) bindings during dependency injection. Fortunately, the gaps between these APIs are easy to fill.