Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 5.0 (Under development)
Release for Jakarta EE 12
Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection specifies a means for obtaining objects in such a way as to maximize reusability, testability and maintainability compared to traditional approaches such as constructors, factories, and service locators (e.g., JNDI).
A complete list of issues and pull requests for this version can be viewed using CDI 5.0 Milestone and CDI TCK 5.0 Milestone in their respective GitHub repositories.
New features, enhancements or additions
Currently suggested topics includes:
- Increase minimal Java version to 17, possibly to 21
- Introduction a way to eagerly initialize CDI beans
- Allow registering
BuildCompatibleExtension programmatically in CDI SE
- Define how
InjectionPoint works when a bean is obtained via CDI.current()
- Restrict how synthetic beans registered via
BuildCompatibleExtension declare their injection points
- Introduction of tests for unproxyability of sealed classes
- Introduction of tests for records in the TCK lang model
- Multiple small specification clarifications
Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes
- Removal of
SecurityManager usage and references
- Removal of deprecated methods from
BeanManager API
- These are method related to EL and are replaced in
ElAwareBeanManager since CDI 4.1
Minimum Java SE Version
Java SE 17 or higher
Details
Compatible Implementations
Ballots
Release Review
The Specification Committee Ballot is TBD.
The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list
Plan Review
This Specification Project’s Plan Review will be covered by the CDI 5.0 Plan Review.
The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2025-03-24 with the following results.
| Representative |
Representative for: |
Vote |
| Kenji Kazumura |
Fujitsu |
+1 |
| Emily Jiang, Tom Watson |
IBM |
+1 |
| Ed Bratt, Dmitry Kornilov |
Oracle |
+1 |
| Andrew Pielage, Petr Aubrecht |
Payara |
+1 |
| David Blevins, Jean-Louis Monteiro |
Tomitribe |
no vote |
| Ivar Grimstad |
EE4J PMC |
+1 |
| Marcelo Ancelmo, Abraham Marin-Perez |
Participant Members |
+1 |
| Werner Keil |
Committer Members |
+1 |
| Jun Qian |
Enterprise Members |
no vote |
| Zhai Luchao |
Enterprise Members |
+1 |
|
Total |
8 |
Non-binding Votes
| Representative |
Representative for: |
Vote |
| Angelo Rubini |
Community |
+1 |
|
Total |
1 |
The ballot was run on the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list
