Tomcat @Resource annotations API annotation stops working in Tomcat 7

Question

I have been using Tomcat 6.0.26-6.0.35 for several years with JSF 2 Mojarra, various versions up to 2.1.2 which I have been using for some months. I have several request-scoped

Answer 1

Another possibility, yet I would think unlikely; is you are using metadata-complete="true" in your web.xml or web-fragment.xml file(s).

Defined metadata-complete: The metadata-complete attribute defines whether this deployment descriptor and other related deployment descriptors for this module (e.g., web service descriptors) are complete, or whether the class files available to this module and packaged with this application should be examined for annotations that specify deployment information. If metadata-complete is set to "true", the deployment tool must ignore any annotations that specify deployment information, which might be present in the class files of the application. If metadata-complete is not specified or is set to "false", the deployment tool must examine the class files of the application for annotations, as specified by the specifications.

Example web.xml:

  ResourceTest
  
    index.html
    index.htm
    index.jsp
    default.html
    default.htm
    default.jsp