Yes, we talked about this topic with Manfried and Antoine : CDI should not mention servlet or JSF nor depend on them. I think a little refactoring of the spec would be needed in 2.0 so that CDI doesn't depend on anything (except @Inject) and all the specs would, hopefully, depend on it.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:23 PM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Antonio Goncalves
<antonio.goncalves@gmail.com> wrote:
> Like @dblevins once said "EJB was a super hype spec with all the cool
> features... and became blotted throughout the years". If we are not careful,
> CDI (the super hype spec at the moment) will become blotted too

I strongly support that!

IMHO as little as possible of these higher level features should be
implemented within CDI itself, so that CDI itself can completely focus
on being the contextual DI spec on which all other specs can build.

I think it's already problematic that CDI 1.1 provided producers for
Servlet artifacts, instead of letting the Servlet spec itself define
those producers. If/when Servlet starts depending on CDI there will be
a rather awkward circular dependency.

Kind regards,
Arjan