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This series of articles introduces Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), a key part of the soon to be finalized Java EE 6 platform. Standardized via JSR 299, CDI is the de-facto API for ...

Developers typically use field injection only on small projects and prototypes, due to its inability to support immutable variables and the incompatibilities it creates with many testing frameworks.