I just recently merged the first CDI [1] patch into master. The patch enables the bll and common projects to have CDI supports but there is now usage still. Further more than the power to create managed beans one can inject dependencies to non-manage beans, e.g all our Command instances. All of the developers are encouraged to read and dig in a bit on the subject to leverage the power of it. I'll will arrange a hands on session. The slides introducing the subject can be found here [2] Also there's a nice mojo group for WELD [3], the reference implementation for CDI spec. join in. [1] http://docs.jboss.org/weld/reference/latest/en-US/html/ [2] https://mojo.redhat.com/docs/DOC-940608 [3] https://mojo.redhat.com/community/old_docspace/bu/middleware/engineering/... Thanks, Roy