JSF page not retrieving variable from CDI bean

Question

I am trying to create a simple “hello world” test using JSF and CDI however the JSF page is not displaying a variable from the CDI bean. If the bean is changed to a managed bean then the variable is displayed.

The test is using Apache MyFaces 2.1.5 and is running on WebSphere application server 8.5.

No doubt there is a simple reason for the problem but I have been unable to establish why this works with a managed bean but not a CDI bean. Could someone please suggest where I'm going wrong?

The content of the files in the test are as follows

test.xhtml

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">

<h:body>
    <h:outputText>#{testBean.myval}</h:outputText>
</h:body>
</html>

TestBean.java

import javax.inject.Named;
import javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped;

@Named
@RequestScoped
public class TestBean {
    private String myVal = "Hello World";

    public String getMyVal() {
        return myVal;
    }

    public void setMyVal(String myVal) {
        this.myVal = myVal;
    }
}

I have also created an empty beans.xml file in WEB-INF.

Paul H Paul H · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-19T08:53:42

Posted a similar question on a WebSphere forum and found that only the default JSF implementation (based on MyFaces) is supported for use with CDI.

See CDI integration with JavaServer Faces for futher details.

JSF page not retrieving variable from CDI bean

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