I'd like to propose in my doc changes for CDI-26 that if a classpath entry does not contain a META-INF/beans.xml that it is treated as if it were bean-discovery-mode=none, e.g. no beans will be scanned in that entry. (BTW, I'm using classpath entry rather than archive in the document to account for cases where someone does -cp "./classes:./extra-classes:./lib/*" to define their classpath)

It's a bit different than how EE works, but I could imagine it causing fewer headaches when running on SE classpaths.

Any thoughts/comments?

John