i was able to dig into this a bit deeper w/ some tomcat guys

What I'm seeing is that during the execution of tomcat bootstrap during `AfterDeploymentValidation` this synchronized block causes a deadlock on the calling thread

https://github.com/weld/core/blob/2.4/impl/src/main/java/org/jboss/weld/servlet/HttpContextLifecycle.java#L140

I'm going to try to dig in further to take a thread dump.