[cdi-dev] CDI 1.2 Implementation

[Jozef Hartinger]

Hi all,

as many of you know already, Weld 2.2 is going to be the reference 
implementation of the upcoming maintenance release of the CDI specification.

CDI is an EE specification. That implies that the CDI TCK which 
validates a CDI implementation has to be run against an EE container not 
just the CDI implementation itself (e.g. Weld Core).

So far, both existing releases of CDI (1.0 and 1.1) were always part of 
a major Java EE release (6 and 7). It therefore made sense to require 
the CDI RI to run as part of the GlassFish application server since 
GlassFish is the RI for each recent Java EE version.

However, with CDI 1.2 the situation is different. Since CDI 1.2 is not 
part of a major Java EE release, we see no reason to require the CDI 1.2 
RI to run specifically on GlassFish at the end of the maintenance 
release window. Instead, any Java EE 7 certified application server 
should be suitable. Therefore, we are going to use WildFly 
(http://wildfly.org/) as the runtime for CDI 1.2 RI and TCK.

Note that this by no means defines which Java EE servers will or will 
not support CDI 1.2. This proposal only defines which Java EE server 
will be used at the end of the CDI 1.2 MR effort to validate the RI and 
the TCK.

Regards,

Jozef