Using Resource Adapters With Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE Platform (CDI)

To enable a resource adapter for CDI, provide a beans.xml file in the META-INF directory of the packaged archive of the resource adapter. For more information about beans.xml, see Configuring a CDI Application.

Do not specify the following classes in the resource adapter as CDI managed beans (that is, do not inject them), because the behavior of these classes as CDI managed beans has not been portably defined.

• Resource adapter beans: These beans are classes that are annotated with the javax.resource.spi.Connector annotation or are declared as corresponding elements in the resource adapter deployment descriptor, ra.xml.

• Managed connection factory beans: These beans are classes that are annotated with the javax.resource.spi.ConnectorDefinition annotation or the javax.resource.spi.ConnectorDefinitions annotation or are declared as corresponding elements in ra.xml.

• Activation specification beans: These beans are classes that are annotated with the javax.resource.spi.Activation annotation or are declared as corresponding elements in ra.xml.

• Administered object beans: These beans are classes that are annotated with the javax.resource.spi.AdministeredObject annotation or are declared as corresponding elements in ra.xml.

Other types of classes in the resource adapter can be CDI managed beans and will behave in a portable manner.