CDI: beans.xml, where do I put you?

Question

I am using Weld as CDI implementation. My integration test, that tries to assemble object graph instantiating Weld container works well, when I have empty b

Answer 1

Just to complement the above answer, here is an official reference on this: https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/gjbnz.html

quote:

An application that uses CDI must have a file named beans.xml. The file can be completely empty (it has content only in certain limited situations), but it must be present. For a web application, the beans.xml file must be in the WEB-INF directory. For EJB modules or JAR files, the beans.xml file must be in the META-INF directory.

Answer 2

http://www.javamonamour.org/2017/11/cdi-in-java-se-8.html here you can see where I have put it with success, that is under src/META-INF . The post contains a full working example of CDI in Java SE.

Answer 3

For EJB and JAR packaging you should place the beans.xml in src/main/resources/META-INF/.

For WAR packaging you should place the beans.xml in src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/.

Remember that only .java files should be put in the src/main/java and src/test/java directories. Resources like .xml files should be in src/main/resources.