For those of us that have been using CDI for a while it's easy to forget that basic refreshers are extremely valuable for newcomers. Fortunately this point is not lost on current CDI specification lead Antoine Sabot-Durand. He recently finished presenting a three-part webinar covering CDI and DeltaSpike.
In the first of these webinars Antoine covered the very basics of CDI (along with some advanced features). The slides are here and the video is below:
In the second webinar in the sequence Antoine covered a few more advanced features, most notably CDI portable extensions. The slides are here and the video is below:
In the third webinar installment Antoine gave a basic overview of DeltaSpike. DeltaSpike is a very handy set of CDI plugins that all Java EE developers should we aware of. DeltaSpike very deservedly won the Duke's Choice Award for 2014. The slides are here and the video is below:
You should also check out Antoine's more forward looking JavaOne 2014 talk on CDI 2 posted here.
