@Named not working in JBoss 6

[aneaga]

The ear I deploy has the following structure

EAR

       war

       lib\

            jpa.jar

            ejb.jar (references jpa.jar in MANIFEST)

After LOTS of troubleshooting this is the topology that deploys fine and works fine in Glassfish. Only deploys fine in Jboss6M5 (same with today's noghtly Jboss build)

Here's the bean I try to access in a JSF page:

import javax.ejb.EJB;
import javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Named;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

@Named
@RequestScoped
public class BookController {

.....

Here's what I get:

7:26:40,885 SEVERE [javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.application] javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: /listBooks.xhtml @49,57 action="#{bookController.doNew}": Target Unreachable, identifier 'bookController' resolved to null: javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: /listBooks.xhtml @49,57 action="#{bookController.doNew}": Target Unreachable, identifier 'bookController' resolved to null

I tried changing the @Named annotation to JSF's ManagedBean and then the error is that CDI cannot inject the beans BookController depends on.

Please let me know what's wrong with this and why it works fine in latest Glassfish 3.

Thanks.

[alex_vb]

I stumbled upon this page while researching a similar error (the JSF @ManagedBean annotation did work though). The fix to my problem was maddeningly easy: I had to add an (empty in this case) beans.xml to the WEB-INF folder. Only then does CDI kick in apparently.

Hope it helps either you or the next stumbling guy!

[nickarls]

Yes, stick beans.xml in every META-INF and WEB-INF dir you can find ;-)