@Produces is a CDI mechanism which allows defining a source for injection. One can use Producer Method or Producer field to generate objects.
Here is brief explanation from JEE 6 tutorial:
A producer method generates an object that can then be injected. Typically, you use producer methods in the following situations:
- When you want to inject an object that is not itself a bean
- When the concrete type of the object to be injected may vary at runtime
- When the object requires some custom initialization that the bean constructor does not perform
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A producer field is a simpler alternative to a producer method; it is a field of a bean that generates an object. It can be used instead of a simple getter method. Producer fields are particularly useful for declaring Java EE resources such as data sources, JMS resources, and web service references.
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This is how an Object in Injected
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This example shows both ways of declaring a producer and Injection.
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Prasanna Bhale
