Dependency Injection in Java EE 6 (Part 6) - 0 views
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one of the most important value propositions for frameworks like Spring has been the ability to easily extend the framework or integrate third-party solutions
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SPI allows you to register your own beans, custom scopes, stereotypes, interceptors and decorators with CDI even if is it not included in the automatic scanning process (such as perhaps registering Spring beans as CDI beans), programmatically looking up CDI beans and injecting them into your own objects (such as injecting CDI beans into Spring beans) and adding/overriding annotation-metadata from other sources (such as from a database or property file)
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SPI can be segmented into three parts. Interfaces like Bean, Interceptor and Decorator model container meta-data (there are a few other meta-data interfaces such as ObserverMethod, Producer, InjectionTarget, InjectionPoint, AnnotatedType, AnnotatedMethod, etc). Each meta-data object encapsulates everything that the CDI container needs to know about the meta-data type