ObservesAsync: reception not guaranteed?

[ljnelson]

I have a bean like this:

@ApplicationScoped

public class Foo {

   private Bar bar;

   @Inject

   public void initMethod(final Bar bar) {

     System.out.println("*** initializing"); // prints first, always

    this.bar = bar;

   }

   public void observeScopeInitialization(@ObservesAsync @Initialized(ApplicationScoped.class) final Object payload) {

     System.out.println("*** scope initialized"); // never prints when async; prints fine when synchronous

   }

}

The initialization method prints its message no matter what, as I'd expect.  The observer method does not.  If I change the observer method parameter to be annotated with @Observes instead of @ObservesAsync, it prints its message.

Is this expected behavior?  I am guessing that the container never "got around" to scheduling delivery of the event before it was shut down in my brief stupid unit test—what I'm not clear on is whether this is permitted by the specification or not.

Weld SE core version 3.0.0 Alpha 17 if it matters.

[ljnelson]

(It occurs to me that probably the @ObservesAsync is not being triggered because nothing is actually firing the scope initialization event using the equivalent of Event.fireAsync().  I will check the specification to see if it says something about how such initialization and destruction events are to be fired.)

[ljnelson]

I see now that it is explicitly mentioned that the initialization event for the application context is fired synchronously (JSR 365: Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java 2.0 section 6.7.3).  Kindly disregard my question.