Instead of making the developer add the Weld Servle listener in their web.xml when using weld-servlet, might we consider registering it for them automatically but including it in a web.xml fragment or TLD that's bundled in weld-servlet.jar? The benefit of using the TLD is that it would work in pre-Servlet 3.0 environments. META-INF/web-fragment.xml <web-fragment xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-fragment_3_0.xsd" version="3.0"> <listener> <listener-class>org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.Listener</listener-class> </listener> </web-fragment> META-INF/weld.tld <taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd" version="2.0"> <description> An empty tag library that registers a listener to bootstrap Weld in a Servlet container. </description> <tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version> <short-name>w</short-name> <uri>http://jboss.org/weld</uri> <!-- This ServletContextListener initializes the runtime environment of the CDI Reference Implementation (Weld) when a web application including it is initialized by the container. --> <listener> <listener-class>org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.Listener</listener-class> </listener> </taglib> Btw, we are already including other automatic configurations, such as a JSF phase listener and view handler (META-INF/faces-config.xml). Worthy of a JIRA? -Dan -- Dan Allen Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen _______________________________________________ weld-dev mailing list weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/weld-dev

Btw, we are already including other automatic configurations, such as a JSF > phase listener and view handler (META-INF/faces-config.xml). > > Worthy of a JIRA? > > Yes, auto-registration would be nice. I though there was a JIRA for this. It's important that the Weld listener kicks in early if people want injection to work in their own servlet listeners. Would it be worth the effort to coordinate with OWB/CanDI on a common name (CDI-IMPL)? so that people can take it into account if they write CDI modules that need to know at which point it can be found in the fragments?