9.2.12. About Portable Extensions

CDI is intended to be a foundation for frameworks, extensions and integration with other technologies. Therefore, CDI exposes a set of SPIs for the use of developers of portable extensions to CDI. Extensions can provide the following types of functionality:
  • integration with Business Process Management engines
  • integration with third-party frameworks such as Spring, Seam, GWT or Wicket
  • new technology based upon the CDI programming model
According to the JSR-299 specification, a portable extension may integrate with the container in the following ways:
  • Providing its own beans, interceptors and decorators to the container
  • Injecting dependencies into its own objects using the dependency injection service
  • Providing a context implementation for a custom scope
  • Augmenting or overriding the annotation-based metadata with metadata from some other source