I solved this via MyFaces CODI (see below), but my beans are still not accessible for some reason. I think I recognized that that web.xml has webapp version="2.5", in the jboss CDI documentation. I have webapp version="3.0". I wonder if that is the cause.

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  package pf;

import java.util.Date;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import javax.servlet.annotation.WebListener;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionEvent;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionListener;

import jsf.users.pf_UsersController;

import org.apache.myfaces.extensions.cdi.core.api.provider.BeanManagerProvider;

/**
*

• @author Administrator
  */
  @WebListener
  public class UserHttpSessionListener implements HttpSessionListener {

@Override
public void sessionCreated(HttpSessionEvent event) { // Do here the job. }

@Override
public void sessionDestroyed(HttpSessionEvent event) {
/*

• JSF Managed Beans

• pf_UsersController userBean = (pf_UsersController) event.getSession().
  getAttribute("pf_usersController");
  */
  pf_UsersController userBean = null;
  try { userBean = BeanManagerProvider.getInstance(). getContextualReference(pf_UsersController.class); } catch (Exception e) {
  }
  if (userBean != null && userBean.getUser() != null) { String userName = userBean.getUser().getUserName(); System.out.println("UserHttpSessionListener.sessionDestroyed(): " + userName + " session destroyed"); userBean.sessionTimeout(); }
  }

}