Apache OpenWebBeans

OpenWebBeans is an open source, embeddable and lightweight CDI Container, released under the Apache License 2.0. OpenWebBeans is an ASL-licensed implementation of Context and Dependency Injection for Java EE Platform Specification which is defined by JSR-299,^[1] JSR-346,^[2] and JSR-365.^[3] OpenWebBeans has been integrated with Java EE application servers such as Geronimo^[4] and Apache TomEE.^[5]

Apache OpenWebBeans

Developer(s)	Apache Software Foundation
Stable release	1.2.x 1.2.8 / 22 April 2015; 10 years ago (2015-04-22) 1.7.x 1.7.6 / 17 December 2018; 6 years ago (2018-12-17) 2.0.x 2.0.27 / 24 May 2022; 2 years ago (2022-05-24)
Repository	OpenWebBeans Repository
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	CDI Container
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	http://openwebbeans.apache.org

History

OpenWebBeans was founded by Gurkan Erdogdu in October 2008. It is one of implementation of the Context and Dependency Injection specification. The incubator proposal can be found here,.^[6] It was graduated in December 2009 to become a top level ASF project.

Versions

OpenWebBeans releases

OWB version	CDI spec	JDK version	Released
2.0.10	2.0	8+	2019-01-13
1.7.6	1.2	7+	2018-12-26
1.2.8	1.1	5+	2018-05-04

See also

• Context and Dependency Injection (CDI)