On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Clint Popetz <cpopetz@gmail.com> wrote:

If you go that route, you lose the ability to inject instances of
third party classes without defining a @Produces method. That may be
preferable to the existing problems caused by default @Dependents, but
I wanted to point it out for clarity.

Actually, there is one other approach to registering a class from a non-bean archive (no beans.xml), which is used in Weld Extensions. You can add the annotated types explicitly in an extension:

void beforeBeanDiscovery(@Observes BeforeBeanDiscovery event, BeanManager beanManager)

{

event.addAnnotatedType(beanManager.createAnnotatedType(BeanIAm.class));

}

-Dan