
The Payara Monthly Catch -September 2025
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Payara Server offers integrated tools that streamline your development experience when working with Jakarta CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) in your applications. In this post, we’ll take a look at the CDI Development Mode available in Payara Server and the CDI Probe it offers.
CDI Development Mode provides key tools and features that help you simplify the process of developing, inspecting and debugging CDI-backed applications. It allows for a much smoother development workflow.
Think of the CDI Probe as an x-ray machine. It gives you in-depth visibility into the CDI beans in your applications at runtime. You can monitor their behaviour, inspect their properties and diagnose potential issues.
There are three ways to activate CDI Development Mode for your applications:
Important: If you enable CDI Development Mode using multiple methods, the options that enable it take precedence and cannot be overridden.
Once CDI Development Mode is active, you have various ways to use the CDI Probe:
The CDI Probe provides a glimpse into the intricate workings of your Jakarta CDI beans, giving you detailed debugging capabilities. It allows you to:
In essence, the CDI Probe allows you to proactively debug, maintain and optimise your Jakarta EE CDI applications in a simplified and intuitive way. Take a look at the detailed documentation page and download a copy of Payara Server Community today to get started using the CDI Tools!
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