That's what I am hoping to do.   The thing I can't get is a running weld container.

I think I have narrowed it down to the test fixture I am using for struts.   The StrutsTestCase extends TestCase,  the junit3 way of doing things.   That means junit annotations don't work.   The @rule for starting weld using the WeldInitiator won’t work because it relies on its apply method to be called to complete creation of the weld container. 

I am going to modify the StrutsTestCase that came with Struts and make it  Junit4 (don’t extend TestCase)  and put in the appropriate annotations and hopefully that will work!

If I am completely wrong about this and there is an easier way to get a weld container I would love to know. 

Thanks for the quick reply!

Thanks for the link! 

I will give that a try first.

I have an ejb in my test.  Is it going to be a problem if I don’t use the WebInitiator will I be able to attach the EJB factory?

Sounds like it is going to be easier to modify the Struts Junit base class.  I tried your suggestion of creating an instance of Weld and then getting a container from the initialize method.  It ended up failing with a Java lang error: Enclosing method not found.

Also I believe the default behaviour of weld is to crawl the whole class path looking for injection points.  It was taking a crazy long time looking and was spitting out tons of ClassNotFoundExceptions. 

If my Junit thing doesn’t work I will try your latest suggestion. 

Thanks for your help!

I know this is more of a Junit question but it pertains to weld-unit.  Do you know then the apply() method is called in the @Rule lifecycle?  I have made my StrutsTestCase to be Junit4 by not extending TestCase and putting in the appropriate annotations.

I have constructed this rule:

    @Rule

    public WeldInitiator weld4 = WeldInitiator.from(WeldInitiator.createWeld()).setEjbFactory(ip -> new MockInstructorSessionBean()).build()

I am hoping it is saying:

Create a Weld instance

Set the EJB factory to be MockInstructorSessionBean

Build me a WeldInitiator with these settings.

I am getting  WELD-ENV-002009: Weld SE container cannot be initialized - no bean archives found  which I can see because I have not asked for a specific bean to Inject and there is no jar file to parse for injection points. 

Is there a better way to get the WeldInitiator? Once I get the WeldInitiator then I can do the getBeanManager().

Thanks so much for your help Martin! 

I was able to get my unit test to create a struts2 action.  After I got the WeldInitiator started I included the test class using .inject(this),  and was able to simply inject the BeanManager!  Worked like a charm!  My mock InitialContext just spit that BeanManager out when asked for the CDI JNDI resource.  Then Struts2 was able to plug that BeanManager in as its injection engine.