Just Another CDI Committer

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ladislav Thon (@ladicek) about:
CDI history and evolution, transition from XML-based configuration
to annotation-based dependency injection, introduction of CDI lite
in version 4.0, differences between portable extensions and
build-compatible extensions, Arc as Quarkus CDI implementation,
challenges in implementing CDI at build time, new features in CDI
4.0 and 4.1 including lifecycle events and method invokers,
comparison of CDI with other dependency injection frameworks,
discussion on decorators, interceptors, and stereotypes in CDI,
performance implications of CDI in Quarkus, Convention over
Configuration in CDI, upcoming changes in CDI 5, removal of
expression language dependency from CDI API, benefits of build-time
oriented implementations like Quarkus, challenges in migrating
portable extensions to build-compatible extensions, introduction of
synthetic beans and observers, addition of priority support for
stereotypes, improvements in invocation context API, ability to
declare priority on producers in CDI 4.1, integration of CDI with
application programming models, Convention over Configuration
paired with dependency injection, performance considerations of CDI
in Quarkus compared to manual dependency management

Ladislav Thon on twitter: @ladicek