[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-517?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.sy... ] Jozef Hartinger commented on CDI-517: ------------------------------------- {quote}2 days before the CDI-1.1 spec went PDF{quote} False. See Martin's comment for details. {quote}backward-incomatible change was made{quote} False. CDI 1.0 did not allow this. Therefore, specifying this in CDI 1.1 is backward compatible from the spec point of view. {quote}not compatible with the JavaEE6 RI and the CDI-1.0 RI where this was explicitly allowed.{quote} False. It was never *explicitly allowed*. It was *implicity* allowed by a bug in CDI RI. Now to get to your point the usage of "raw references to generic types" (called simply raw types hereafter) is discouraged by the JLS, supported only to provide compatibility with legacy pre Java 1.5 code and generates a compiler warning. Therefore, people should not be using it in the first place. You're right that fixing the Weld bug caused a few problems here and there where people were still using raw types. This is unfortunate but hardly anything can be done about it at this point especially given that this was already dealt with in CDI-304. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.11#6341)