Is CDI a good replacement of Spring?

Question

We are planning to write a web application from the scratch, it has been decided to go with the latest edition of Glassfish which complies to Java EE 6 standard, therefore we ar

Answer 1

Spring is more than just a dependency injection container. It also has tools for AOP, templates for use with JPA, SQL, etc. and even more.

However CDI can be used as a replacement for Spring's DI API.