Expression Language with CDI not work

Question

i have a simple ear file that includes a war. I have only one Named- Bean and one xhtml. On glassfish all works fine. But on websphere it does not works. I does not works mean all EL- Tag will be ignored. I can reproduce this in glassfish when i delete my beans.xml in /WEB- INF. I tried to put the beans.xml in every single folder.

And i read this (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1301_stephen/1301_stephen.html):

The beans.xml file must be placed in one of these locations: For a library JAR, EJB JAR, application client JAR or RAR archive, it needs to be in the META-INF directory. The WEB-INF/classes directory of a WAR. For a directory in the JVM classpath containing classes, the code will be scanned if the beans.xml file is located the META-INF sub-directory.

But nothing works. When i use @ManagedBean and Faces Session Scope instead all works fine. I don't know what i can do else. Please help.

Here my example code and my structures:

XHTML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">
<h:head>

</h:head>

<h:body>
 <h:form id="tableform">
    <h:outputText value="TEST"/>
    <h:outputText value="#{personBean.helloWorld}"/>
    <p:commandButton value="#{personBean.helloWorld}"/>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>

Bean:

@Named
@SessionScoped
public class PersonBean implements Serializable{

private String helloWorld;


@PostConstruct
public void init() {
    setHelloWorld("HELLO WORLD");
}


public String getHelloWorld() {
    return helloWorld;
}


public void setHelloWorld(String helloWorld) {
    this.helloWorld = helloWorld;
}
}

Structure:

Ear -Meta-Inf --Application.xml -WAR --WEB-INF ---beans.xml

But i tried to put it in WEB-INF/classes, META-INF, META-INF from ear. Nothing works. :(

Result on Glassfish with beans.xml:

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Result on Websphere / Glassfish without beans.xml:

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I get no exception or error or something else.

I don't understand. It works when you put a beans.xml file and it doesn't when you don't. It's the expected behavior... — Antoine Sabot-Durand
The delete from beans.xml was only to demonstrate the error. On websphere it doesnt works with it. — pL4Gu33

Gas Gas · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-17T21:54:37

WebSphere 8.x bundles JSF implementation (MyFaces) and only that default implementation works with CDI. You need to have beans.xml in WEB-INF folder.

However based on your page fragment, you are using custom one (PrimeFaces).
Check this page for more details : CDI integration with JavaServer Faces

Expression Language with CDI not work

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