Ninth Coimbra JUG Meeting – CDI: How do I?

Last Thursday, 9 July 2015, the ninth meeting of Coimbra JUG was held at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. The attendance was great. We had around 30 persons and considering that July is a month where a lot of people go on vacations, we can’t complain. We had the pleasure to listen to António Gonçalves talking about CDI. A great opportunity to interact with one of the greatest experts in CDI and Java EE in general. The best of all: it was in Portuguese!

In my opinion, CDI is a specification with great potential. It will probably become one central piece of all the other specifications in the Java EE world if is not already. For that reason, it makes sense to dedicate sessions to CDI CDI. Even more, when a lot of developers don’t know it is out there and others use little bits, without knowing that they are using CDI. Not many people from the audience was using CDI. António, demonstrated some of the core features of the specification. With the help of JBoss Forge, António created a small web app and showcased Dependency Injection, Qualifiers, Producer, Scopes, Alternatives and Events.

As always, we had surprises for the attendees. IntelliJ sponsored our event, by offering a free license to raffle among the attendees. Congratulations to Vitor Loureiro for winning the license. Develop with pleasure! We also handed a few Tomitribe and ZeroTurnaround t-shirts.