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]
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.