Using Jakarta CDI to inject context and dependencies

Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) is one of the most important APIs under the Jakarta EE umbrella. Introduced in Java EE 6, it now has a big influence over many other APIs.

In the recipe, you will learn how to use Jakarta CDI in a couple of different ways and situations.

Getting ready

First, let's add the required dependency:

<dependency>
 <groupId>javax</groupId>
 <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
 <version>8.0</version>
 <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

How to do it...

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