Welcome to Apache OpenWebBeans

What is OpenWebBeans?

OpenWebBeans is an Apache License v2.0 implementation of the JSR-299 "Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java (TM) EE platform" specification.

In addition to the implementation of the specification, the project provides a set of WebBeans components and integration plugins exposing functionality of other Apache Software Foundation projects.

Apache OpenWebBeans is based on a plugin architecture. The OpenWebBeans Core is strictly Java SE only. Additional functionality, like JSF-1 support, JSF-2 support JPA support, JMS support, etc can be added by simply dropping the respective OpenWebBeans plugin JAR into your classpath.

Recent News

  • 2011-12-10 OpenWebBeans 1.1.3 has been released - this is a bugfix release
  • 2011-10-17 OpenWebBeans 1.1.2 has been released - this is a bugfix release
  • 2011-10-04 Apache TomEE release includes OWB as CDI container
  • 2011-0-29 - Trademark Rules & Logo download page added
  • 2011-08-04 - Added backward compat support for Java5 for running OWB with older EE containers
  • 2001-05-19 - We got a new Logo, designed by Adonis Raduca and sponsored by Irian.at
  • 2011-04-09 - New PMC members: Gerhard Petracek, David Jencks
  • 2011-03-30 - 1.1.0 released
  • 2010-11-07 - New Committer: David Jencks
  • 2010-10-08 - New Committers: Paul J Reder, Rohit Kelapure
  • 2010-09-03 - alpha-2 released
  • 2010-08-03 - New committer: Gerhard Petracek
  • 2010-07-10 - alpha-1 released
  • 2010-03-05 - M4 released
  • 2010-03-05 - New committer: Ying Wang
  • 2009-11-17 - New committer: Eric Covener
  • 2009-11-10 - New committer: Joe Bergmark
  • 2009-09-30 - M3 is released
  • 2009-09-14 - New committer: David Blevins
  • 2009-07-07 - New committer: James Carman
  • 2009-06-09 - M2 is released
  • 2009-02-16 - M1 is released
  • 2009-01-18 - New committer: Mark Struberg
  • 2008-12-24 - New committer: Mohammad Nour El-Din
  • 2008-11-23 - Source code is available in project SVN.