CDI JSF @Named classes not working in lib jar but ok in classes

[icordoba]

Hi there,
i have a strange situation using Glassfish V3. If I put my JSF classes (I annotate the with @Named and @RequestScoped) they are not recognized in JSF pages... null. I get the following empty message in log (I should get the [] full of @Named classnames):

[#|2010-03-23T01:00:26.911+0100|INFO|glassfishv3.0|javax.enterprise.system.std.com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl|_ThreadID=28;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|nullID: /Users/icordoba/Sites/cervatOH2Web/ CLASSES: []

The weird thing is that if I unpack /WEB-INF/lib/archive.jar into /WEB-INF/classes/ dir (and rebook the app) they are recognized and they work OK in my JSF2 pages. Not if I leave them in /WEB-INF/lib/archive.jar

The rest of the classes (EJBs, SessionBeans, etc...) work fine in jars and I only have to unpack the @Named classes to be able to use them directly in my JSFs.

I am sure I must be missing something. Any idea on what's going on? Could anybody confirm me that as I suppouse, there should be no difference in packing the CDI classes in a jar or leave them unpaccked in /classes dir?


Thanks
Ignacio

[swd847]

Did you remember the beans.xml file?

[icordoba]

mmmm... I feel so...
I had followed multiple CDI tutorials and they put beans.xml file in /WEB-INF ; I had understood that the file was mandatory but misunderstood that that file would make all jars be detected by the CDI bean discovery process. I've just realized that beans.xml must be in every .jar I want to be discoverable.

Thanks for your fast and helpful reply Stuard,
Ignacio