Fresh from Australia, via JBoss.org, this is nearly an hour-long presentation on Web Beans. As the specification lead and originator of the JSR, Gavin has a lot to say on the subject:
Gavin provides an exceptionally nice walk-through behind not just how Web Beans works, but why it works the way it does. He provides comparison to AOP features, and even demonstrates the recursive nature of Web Beans functionality being used to define Web Beans functionality. Meta-annotations are cool. Meta-meta-annotations are even cooler.
We’ve broken the talk into 3 easy-to-digest chunks:
http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/TheWebBeansManifesto
Read, think, learn, and don’t forget.
Gavin introduces his sneak peek series with:
We’re now really close to releasing a Community Review Draft for Web Beans. The purpose of the draft is to gather feedback on the component model, dependency management model and extensible context model that we’ve defined, and hopefully get people excited about Web Beans.
Editor note: the early draft review is running from 17 October to 01 December 2007 and is available here.
Web Beans Sneak Peek Part I: Introducing Web Beans
Web Beans Sneak Peek Part II: Injection, binding annotations and component types
Web Beans Sneak Peek Part III: Declaring components using XML
Web Beans Sneak Peek Part IV: Scopes, contexts and resolver methods
Web Beans Sneak Peek Part V: Interceptors and events
