This one's irking me. I've gotten examples like this working before in seam, not sure why it's not working w/ just webbeans.

I have a facelet defined like this:

 <ui:composition template="template.xhtml">
 <ui:define name="pageTitle">Webstore Image Uploader</ui:define>
 <ui:define name="pageHeader">Image Uploader</ui:define>
 <ui:define name="body">
 <h:form>
 <h:outputText value="Currently logged in as: #{login.name}" /><br />
 <h:selectBooleanCheckbox value="#{uploader.override}" />Override Existing Files<br />
 <rich:dataList var="result" value="#{uploader.messages}" id="status">
 <h:outputText value="#{result}" />
 </rich:dataList>
 <rich:fileUpload acceptedTypes="tif" allowFlash="true" maxFilesQuantity="100"
 fileUploadListener="#{uploader.onUpload}">
 <a4j:support event="onuploadcomplete" reRender="status" />
 </rich:fileUpload>
 </h:form>
 </ui:define>
 </ui:composition>

And a bean defined like this:

@Named("uploader") @SessionScoped
public class FileUploadListener implements java.io.Serializable{
 //@Current ImageDAO imageDAO;
 @Current LoginBean login;
 private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(FileUploadListener.class);
 private List<String> messages = new ArrayList<String>();
 private boolean override = true;
 public List<String> getMessages() {
 if(messages.size() == 0){
 messages.add("Welcome message.");
 }
 return messages;
 }
 public void setMessages(List<String> messages) {
 this.messages = messages;
 }
 public boolean isOverride() {
 return override;
 }
 public void setOverride(boolean override) {
 this.override = override;
 }
 public void onUpload(UploadEvent e) {
 logger.error("Calling on upload: "+e.getUploadItems().size());
 messages = new ArrayList<String>();
 //List<UploadItem> items = e.getUploadItems();
 //for(UploadItem item : items) onItem(item);
 onItem(e.getUploadItem());
 if(messages.isEmpty()) {
 if(logger.isDebugEnabled())
 logger.debug("No errors during upload.");
 messages.add("All files uploaded successfully");
 }
 }
 private void onItem(UploadItem item) {
 File src = item.getFile();
 String fileName = item.getFileName();
 int size = item.getFileSize();
 //boolean existsFile = PathUtils.fileExists(fileName);
 boolean existsDB = false;
 boolean exists = PathUtils.fileExists(fileName) && existsDB;
 if(!exists || (exists && isOverride())) {
 File img = PathUtils.locateFile(fileName);
 try {
 img.createNewFile();
 } catch (IOException e) {
 logger.error("Problem creating new image: "+fileName,e);
 }
 src.renameTo(img);
 } else {
 messages.add("Overrides disabled and image found: "+fileName);
 }

 }

It looks like the rich file upload is never invoking my upload listener. The web beans bootstrapper is loaded fine.