CDI/Weld beans.xml XSD/DTD

20 Aug
2010

As I’m often looking for the correct header of the beans.xml file required for Web Beans / Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) to work, I decided to share this simple header here with you.

If you don’t have anything to declare, create an empty beans.xml like this one

<beans
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/beans_1_0.xsd" />
 
If you have to declare alternatives or interceptors, do it like this
<pre lang='xml'>
<beans
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/beans_1_0.xsd">
    <alternatives>
        <stereotype>
            com.dominikdorn.dc.passwordReset.PasswordResetService
        </stereotype>
        <class>com.dominikdorn.dc.passwordReset.StudyGuruPasswordReset</class>
    </alternatives>
</beans>

A good IDE will help you with creating a proper beans.xml as soon as you specify the xml namespace.

Popular implementations of CDI are

  1. CanDI
  2. Weld
  3. OpenWebBeans

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