JSR 330 (Dependency Injection for Java) passed!

Two days ago, JSR 330 passed its final vote, and we now have a standard way to annotate Java classes for dependency injection. Thanks to the spec lead Bob Lee, the JSR 330 expert group did its work in record time, in the open, and under one of the most permissive licenses.

Because of the transparency of the expert group work, it is no secret that I am representing IBM in that group. I even implemented the spec in order to understand it better, and made that implementation available as open source in the context of the e4 project, which is the place where Eclipse Platform folks can experiment with new technologies. (Btw, I intend to put javax.inject in Orbit for use by other Eclipse projects.)

I am happy with the current state of JSR 330 and am looking forward to working with the expert group on a planned maintenance draft that will define a portable configuration API. Because with such an API, it will be possible to reuse application code across different injector implementations.

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