Re: [weld-dev] CDI Implementors Panel BOF at JavaOne 2010?

Dan, Below is the draft I have. Let me know your comments (nothing need be held back :-)). Note, the general order of mention is alphabetical. ============================================================================================================== Title: CDI Implementations Frontier: Goals, Milestones and Perspectives Type: Birds-of-a-Feather Speakers: Dan Allen, David Blevins, Reza Rahman Abstract: The Context and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI) API is a key part of Java EE 6. It provides robust context management, conversations, type-safe next-generation generic dependency injection, stereotypes, interceptors, decorators, events and a comprehensive SPI intended for portable extensions. CDI already has a lot of industry traction with three independent open source implementations – Resin’s CanDI, Apache’s OpenWebBeans and JBoss’ Weld/Seam 3. This session is your opportunity to get the perspectives of the folks working on these implementations. We will talk about each project's goals, approach, features, status, milestones, road map and modular portable extensions. Please do feel free to bring your questions, concerns and ideas! Summary: As a key part of Java EE 6, CDI already has three early open source implementations. This includes the JBoss reference implementation Weld (as well as the Seam 3 CDI modules), Caucho's CanDI included in the Resin application server as well as Apache's OpenWebBeans. This informal session is a chance for attendees to get an overview of these projects and interact closely with the folks working on them. The session will loosely follow the outline below: * An overview of CDI * Overview and details of each CDI project including: - Goals, implementation approach, features beyond the CDI specification, current status, milestones achieved, road-map and community - Closely related projects such as JBoss Seam 3, JBoss Arquillian, Embedded JBoss, Apache OpenEJB and Resin - CDI portable extensions being developed with each implementation such as support for XML configuration, localization, internationalization, security, Spring, GWT, Quartz, Struts 2, Wicket, iBATIS, JUnit, Drools and Apache projects. * Open-ended Q & A with attendees. This session is intended for Java server side developers, architects and managers. A moderate understanding of dependency injection and Java EE is assumed. ============================================================================================================== Cheers, Reza Dan Allen wrote: