Jboss just announced the first preview release of Web beans, their dependency injection and contextual lifecycle management framework.
Web beans is an implementation of JSR-299 which defines a set of services for the Java EE environment that makes applications much easier to develop. JSR-299 layers an enhanced lifecycle and interaction model over existing Java component types including JavaBeans and Enterprise Java Beans. As a complement to the traditional Java EE programming model, the services provide:
- an improved lifecycle for stateful components, bound to well-defined contexts
- a typesafe approach to dependency injection
- interaction via an event notification facility
- a better approach to binding interceptors to components, along with a new kind of interceptor, called a decorator, that is more appropriate for use in solving business problems.
