[cdi-dev] War with no WEB-INF/beans.xml

[Pete Muir]

The CDI spec states that "WEB-INF/beans.xml indicates that WEB-INF/classes is a bean archive" - yes. However it doesn't say a servlet injection point must be in a bean archive, it just says it should be injected. Java EE says it won't unless it's in a bean archive.

On 6 Feb 2012, at 17:03, Joseph Snyder wrote:

> I'm confused...The CDI spec states that WEB-INF/beans.xml indicates that WEB-INF/classes is a bean archive.  So CDI is stating that the servlet injection point should not work, not that it should work right?
> 
> On 2/6/2012 7:30 AM, Pete Muir wrote:
>> Unfortunately there is kinda an overlap/conflict/mismatch (conflict is too strong, overlap too weak ;-) between the Java EE spec and CDI here. CDI implies that the Servlet injection point should work, however Java EE says it definitely won't. Assuming that Java EE overrules CDI here, then you are correct, and that is how all containers I know of are implemented.
>> 
>> On 3 Feb 2012, at 22:28, Mark Struberg wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> yes, that is exactly what should happen.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Please note that you could also have a WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/beans.xml to pickup WEB-INF/classes as bean archive.
>>> I always do it that way, because Eclipse and Idea can handle this much better when you e.g. need to debug a webapp with mvn jetty:run
>>> 
>>> LieGrue,
>>> strub
>>> 
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>>>> From: Joseph Snyder<j.j.snyder at oracle.com>
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>>>> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 9:34 PM
>>>> Subject: [cdi-dev] War with no WEB-INF/beans.xml
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>>>> 
>>>> I have a test war that does not contain WEB-INF/beans.xml.  However, there is a jar in WEB-INF/lib that does contain META-INF/beans.xml.  According to the spec, 12.1,  this war contains 1 bean archive, the one in the jar.  (If there were a WEB-INF/beans.xml then there would be 2 bean archives in the war.)  So when the war is deployed only the classes in the jar are managed by the CDI container.  Therefore, if there is an injection point defined in a servlet (in WEB-INF/classes) then that injection point will never be processed by the CDI container.  Is my interpretation of the spec correct?
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