Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.2

The Contexts and Dependency Injection specification makes it easier to integrate Java EE components of different types. It provides a common mechanism to inject component such as EJBs or Managed Beans into other components such as JSPs or other EJBs.

Enable this feature

To enable the Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.2 feature, add the following element declaration into the server.xml file, inside the featureManager element:

<feature>cdi-1.2</feature>

Feature configuration elements

• application
• applicationManager
• applicationMonitor
• authData
• cdi
• cdi12
• classloader
• classloading
• javaPermission
• library
• transaction

Standard API packages provided by this feature

• javax.decorator
• javax.enterprise.context
• javax.enterprise.context.spi
• javax.enterprise.event
• javax.enterprise.inject
• javax.enterprise.inject.spi
• javax.enterprise.util
• javax.inject
• javax.interceptor

Third-party API packages provided by this feature

• org.jboss.weld.context.api
• org.jboss.weld.context.beanstore
• org.jboss.weld.context.bound
• org.jboss.weld.context.conversation

Supported Java versions

• JavaSE-1.8
• JavaSE-11.0
• JavaSE-17.0
• JavaSE-21.0
• JavaSE-24.0

Platform Versions

• javaee-7.0

Features that enable this feature

• javaeeClient-7.0
• jsfContainer-2.2
• microProfile-1.0
• microProfile-1.2
• microProfile-1.3
• microProfile-1.4
• mpHealth-1.0
• mpHealth-2.0
• mpHealth-2.1
• mpHealth-2.2
• mpJwt-1.0
• mpJwt-1.1
• mpMetrics-1.0
• mpMetrics-1.1
• mpMetrics-2.0
• mpMetrics-2.2
• mpMetrics-2.3
• mpOpenTracing-1.0
• mpOpenTracing-1.1
• mpOpenTracing-1.2
• opentracing-1.0
• opentracing-1.1
• opentracing-1.2
• webProfile-7.0

Develop a feature that depends on this feature

If we are developing a feature that depends on this feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in your feature manifest file.

com.ibm.websphere.appserver.cdi-1.2; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"

SPI packages provided by this feature

• io.openliberty.cdi.spi