Tomcat 7 war and Weld

[aagenielsen.aagnie.gmail.com]

We are using Weld 1.1.0 in a JSF 2.1 applikation and we are struggleing with war files and Tomcat 6.0.32.

Our production environment are currently using "pure" war files and exploded apps are not permitted ! It is true that Weld does not work unless the war files are exploded ? Our own little test show no beans when running the app unexploded, but all our beans when exploded

.....

    public List<Bean> getJndiBeans() {
        List<Bean> jndiBeans=new ArrayList<Bean>();
        Context initCtx;
        try {
            initCtx = new InitialContext();
            Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
            BeanManagerImpl bm= (BeanManagerImpl) envCtx.lookup("BeanManager");
            for (Object bean : Arrays.asList(bm.getBeans().toArray())) {
                jndiBeans.add((Bean) bean);
            }
        } catch (NamingException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return jndiBeans;
    }

......

......


            <rich:dataTable var="bean" value="#{simpleTest.jndiBeans}">
                <f:facet name="header">
                    <h:column>Name</h:column>
                    <h:column>Scope</h:column>
                </f:facet>
                <h:column>
                    <h:outputText value="#{bean.name}" />
                </h:column>
                <h:column>
                    <h:outputText value="#{bean.scope.name}" />
                </h:column>
            </rich:dataTable>


Anyone ?


best regards

aage

[fup]

Where did you place the beans.xml file? There are two options: in the META-INF directory of the classpath or WEB-INF directory of the web root.

I deployed a simple example app on Tomcat 6.0.32. For exploded deployment, beans were discovered placing the beans.xml file either at /WEB-INF/ or at /WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/. But, surprisingly, in case of an unexploded war beans were discovered only if the beans.xml file was placed at /WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/. Placing it at /WEB-INF/ does not work for me.

[aagenielsen.aagnie.gmail.com]

Hmmmm strange - we have tried copying our (empty) beans.xml around without any luck - and we are also using Tomcat 6.0.32 not Tomcat 7 as we wrote in subject.

Are we alone in deploying only nonexploding webapps in Tomcat ?

/aage