JBossDeveloper

Well I have all my converter in my faces-config like this:

     <!-- Converter definitions required on JBoss AS because it fails to scan for annotations -->
     <converter>
          <converter-id>inserationConverter</converter-id>
          <converter-class>de.autowelt.core.converter.InserationConverter</converter-class>
     </converter>

Not sure if its fixed already but if your converter get called it should be fine. I had class cast exception without adding them to faces-config.xml!

web.xml? Nothing special here

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
 <display-name>AutoWelt</display-name>
 
 <!-- FACES CONFIGURATION -->
 <context-param>
  <param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
  <param-value>Development</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
  <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
  <param-value>server</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
  <param-name>javax.faces.SEPARATOR_CHAR</param-name>
  <param-value>-</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
  <param-name>com.sun.faces.validateXml</param-name>
  <param-value>true</param-value> 
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
  <param-name>facelets.DEVELOPMENT</param-name>
  <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
  <param-name>javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX</param-name>
  <param-value>.xhtml</param-value>
 </context-param> 
 <servlet>
  <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
 </servlet>
 <servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>*.seam</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping> 

 <!-- RICHFACES CONFIGURATION -->
 <context-param>
  <param-name>org.richfaces.fileUpload.maxRequestSize</param-name>
  <param-value>268435456</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
  <param-name>org.richfaces.skin</param-name>
  <param-value>autowelt</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
  <param-name>org.richfaces.enableControlSkinning</param-name>
  <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>
 <context-param>
  <param-name>org.richfaces.enableControlSkinningClasses</param-name>
  <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <!-- GLOBAL CONFIGURATION -->
 <session-config>
  <session-timeout>10</session-timeout>
 </session-config>
 <security-constraint>
  <display-name>Restrict access to XHTML documents</display-name>
  <web-resource-collection>
   <web-resource-name>XHTML</web-resource-name>
   <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
  </web-resource-collection>
  <auth-constraint/>
 </security-constraint>
</web-app>

I'm talking about all of the classes in WEB-INF/classes being jarred up and that jar put in WEB-INF/lib.

Well i'm using also nearly all seam 3 modules.

You should build up a small war file with minimum on classes where the problem is reproducible and post it into JIRA of seam faces!

Yes, please create a JIRA issue.  If you have a reproducible test case, that would help isolate the problem more quickly.

Were you able to get a workaround for this issue?

I have the same problem and I'm using JBoss AS 6.1.SNAPSHOT (Feb 9th 2011), Mojarra-2.1.0-b11, and Seam-faces-3-beta2. I need to use the latest Mojarra since it has a crucial fix. Also, everything else (Injections) works fine in my app.

In my Converter, similar to yours, I'm trying to inject a @PersistentContext, @Log, and a @UserService – and all are resolved to null. The converter itself is being called without the need to configure faces-config though.

Like mentioned before its a weld issue. If the bean lookup fails all injections are null inclusive the logger.

You should use Weld 1.2.0.Beta1!