Using CDI (Weld) in Tomcat with simple POJO classes

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I had a quick look at your Weld setup on Tomcat and it looks ok (just in case, see 18.3.1. Tomcat for details if required).

However, I have some questions/remarks:

  • Is your archive CDI enabled? In other words, do you have a beans.xml file (for a web application, the beans.xml file can be in either the WEB-INF directory or in the WEB-INF/classes/META-INF directory)? See Why is beans.xml required in CDI?

  • You're not supposed to instantiate beans yourself (like in new InjectionExample()) if you want your beans to be managed by CDI. Use @Inject.

I did not really pay attention to the fact that you were trying to inject something in a ContextListener, I was too much focused on the use of the new operator. That being said, while the Weld documentation states that the CDI specification requires the container to provide injection into non-contextual resources for all Java EE component classes, I'm totally sure of what this covers, especially when using Tomcat.

Personally, I would try to get CDI working with a Servlet first (or maybe use a full blown Java EE 6 server to avoid any limitation).

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Updated on May 04, 2022

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  • ZachZoe
    ZachZoe almost 2 years

    After 2 days of debugging and trying I have no other idea than asking you for a solution.

    I want to use CDI (on JEE6) in a Tomcat WebApp with only simple plain old java objects (yet). As far as I know it is simply possible to inject POJO java classes into other POJO Java classes?!

    Here are my example classes

    • class ToBeInjected (Application-scoped / singleton)
    • class InjectingExample
    • ServletListener "ApplicationContextListener"

    The application-scoped (singleton) class "ToBeInjected":

    import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

@ApplicationScoped
public class ToBeInjected {
  private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ToBeInjected.class);

  public ExampleBean() {
    log.info("ToBeInjected init");
  }

  public void sayHello() {
    log.info("Hello from ToBeInjected!");
  }

}

    The class "InjectingExample" that injects the above class:

    import javax.inject.Inject;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class InjectingExample {
  private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(InjectingExample.class);

  @Inject
  private ExampleBean bean;

  public InjectionExample() {
    log.info("InjectingExample init");
  }

  public void sayHello() {
    log.info("InjectingExample tries to say hello ...");
    bean.sayHello();
  }

}

    Finally there is the ContextListener which created a instance of InjectingExample and calls sayHello():

    import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import com.btc.dtv.gw.core.common.log.LogMarker;

public class ApplicationContextListener implements ServletContextListener {
  private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ApplicationContextListener.class);

  @Override
  public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
    log.info(">>>>> Startup >>>>>");
    try {
      InjectionExample example = new InjectionExample();
      example.sayHello(); // uses internally the injected singleton class
    }
    catch(Exception ex) {
      log.error("Error (nothing injected?)", ex);
    }
    log.info(">>>>> Startup DONE >>>>>");
  }


}

    I am using Tomcat 6 with the following WEB-INF/web.xml:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    version="2.5">

    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.Listener</listener-class>
    </listener>

    <listener>
        <listener-class>com.btc.dtv.gw.ApplicationContextListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

    <resource-env-ref>
        <description>Object factory for the CDI Bean Manager</description>
        <resource-env-ref-name>BeanManager</resource-env-ref-name>
        <resource-env-ref-type>javax.enterprise.inject.spi.BeanManager</resource-env-ref-type>
    </resource-env-ref>

</web-app>

    And the META-INF/context.xml:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context>
   <Resource name="BeanManager" 
             auth="Container" 
             type="javax.enterprise.inject.spi.BeanManager" 
             factory="org.jboss.weld.resources.ManagerObjectFactory" />

   <!-- Uncomment to enable injection into Servlets, Servlet Listeners and Filters in Tomcat -->
   <Listener className="org.jboss.weld.environment.tomcat.WeldLifecycleListener" />

</Context>

    Finally I copied "weld-tomcat-support-1.0.1-Final.jar" to ${CATALINA_HOME}/libs.

    Deploying and running the webapp in Tomcat throws a NullPointerException because the member "bean" in class InjectingExample is null (not injected).

    As far as I understood, this should work. Am I wrong?

    Thanx for your attention until here. Hopefully I have mentioned everything which is import for you to help me. Otherweise tell me what you need.

    Finally the logfile output in cataling.log:

    12:05:17.716 [http-8080-1] INFO   LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Version - WELD-000900 1.0.1 (Final) [@] 
12:05:17.763 [http-8080-1] INFO   LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000101 Transactional services not available. Injection of @Inject UserTransaction not available. Transactional observers will be invoked synchronously. [@] 
12:05:17.888 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000103 Enabled alternatives for Manager
Enabled alternatives: [] []
Registered contexts: [interface javax.enterprise.context.ConversationScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped, interface javax.inject.Singleton, interface javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.Dependent, interface javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped]
Registered beans: 1
Specialized beans: 0
: [] [] [@] 
12:05:17.888 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000104 Enabled decorator types for Manager
Enabled alternatives: [] []
Registered contexts: [interface javax.enterprise.context.ConversationScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped, interface javax.inject.Singleton, interface javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.Dependent, interface javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped]
Registered beans: 1
Specialized beans: 0
: [] [@] 
12:05:17.888 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000105 Enabled interceptor types for Manager
Enabled alternatives: [] []
Registered contexts: [interface javax.enterprise.context.ConversationScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped, interface javax.inject.Singleton, interface javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.Dependent, interface javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped]
Registered beans: 1
Specialized beans: 0
: [] [@] 
12:05:17.888 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000103 Enabled alternatives for Manager
Enabled alternatives: [] []
Registered contexts: [interface javax.enterprise.context.ConversationScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped, interface javax.inject.Singleton, interface javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.Dependent, interface javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped]
Registered beans: 1
Specialized beans: 0
: [] [] [@] 
12:05:17.888 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000104 Enabled decorator types for Manager
Enabled alternatives: [] []
Registered contexts: [interface javax.enterprise.context.ConversationScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped, interface javax.inject.Singleton, interface javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.Dependent, interface javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped]
Registered beans: 1
Specialized beans: 0
: [] [@] 
12:05:17.888 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000105 Enabled interceptor types for Manager
Enabled alternatives: [] []
Registered contexts: [interface javax.enterprise.context.ConversationScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped, interface javax.inject.Singleton, interface javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped, interface javax.enterprise.context.Dependent, interface javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped]
Registered beans: 1
Specialized beans: 0
: [] [@] 
12:05:18.013 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Reflection - WELD-000602 interface javax.enterprise.inject.Default is not declared @Target(TYPE, METHOD) or @Target(TYPE) [@] 
12:05:18.013 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Reflection - WELD-000601 interface javax.inject.Named is missing @Target [@] 
12:05:18.013 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Reflection - WELD-000602 interface javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped is not declared @Target(TYPE, METHOD) or @Target(TYPE) [@] 
12:05:18.013 [http-8080-1] WARN          org.jboss.interceptor.model.InterceptionTypeRegistry - Class 'javax.ejb.PostActivate' not found, interception based on it is not enabled [@] 
12:05:18.013 [http-8080-1] WARN          org.jboss.interceptor.model.InterceptionTypeRegistry - Class 'javax.ejb.PrePassivate' not found, interception based on it is not enabled [@] 
12:05:18.029 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-ManagedBean-class org.jboss.weld.conversation.ConversationImpl [@] 
12:05:18.029 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: Built-in implicit javax.event.Event bean [@] 
12:05:18.029 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Reflection - WELD-000602 interface javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped is not declared @Target(TYPE, METHOD) or @Target(TYPE) [@] 
12:05:18.029 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-ManagedBean-class org.jboss.weld.conversation.ServletConversationManager [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-ProducerMethod-org.jboss.weld.conversation.ServletConversationManager.method getConversationIdName() [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-ManagedBean-class org.jboss.weld.conversation.NumericConversationIdGenerator [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: Built-in implicit javax.inject.Instance bean [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-NewManagedBean-class org.jboss.weld.conversation.ConversationImpl [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: Built-in javax.inject.manager.InjectionPoint bean [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-ProducerMethod-org.jboss.weld.conversation.ServletConversationManager.method getConversationTimeoutInMilliseconds() [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-NewManagedBean-class org.jboss.weld.conversation.ServletConversationManager [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-ProducerMethod-org.jboss.weld.conversation.ServletConversationManager.method getConversationConcurrentAccessTimeout() [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-NewManagedBean-class org.jboss.weld.conversation.NumericConversationIdGenerator [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Reflection - WELD-000602 interface javax.enterprise.inject.Produces is not declared @Target(TYPE, METHOD) or @Target(TYPE) [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-ManagedBean-class org.jboss.weld.servlet.HttpSessionManager [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-NewManagedBean-class org.jboss.weld.servlet.HttpSessionManager [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-weld-ProducerMethod-org.jboss.weld.servlet.HttpSessionManager.method getSession() [@] 
12:05:18.044 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Reflection - WELD-000602 interface javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped is not declared @Target(TYPE, METHOD) or @Target(TYPE) [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-flat-ManagedBean-class com.bsp.app.ToBeInjected [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: Built-in javax.inject.manager.InjectionPoint bean [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-flat-NewManagedBean-class com.bsp.app.services.products.impl.ProductServiceImpl [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-flat-NewManagedBean-class com.bsp.app.ToBeInjected [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: Built-in implicit javax.inject.Instance bean [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-flat-ManagedBean-class com.bsp.app.services.products.impl.ProductServiceImpl [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-flat-NewManagedBean-class com.bsp.app.services.products.ProductServiceModule [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-flat-NewManagedBean-class com.bsp.app.InjectingExample [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-flat-ManagedBean-class com.bsp.app.services.products.ProductServiceModule [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: Built-in implicit javax.event.Event bean [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000106 Bean: org.jboss.weld.bean-flat-ManagedBean-class com.bsp.app.InjectingExample [@] 
12:05:18.091 [http-8080-1] DEBUG  LOCALIZED org.jboss.weld.Bootstrap - WELD-000100 Weld initialized. Validating beans [@] 
12:05:18.200 [http-8080-1] INFO   TEC    com.bsp.app.ApplicationContextListener - >>>>> Startup >>>>> [@] 
12:05:18.200 [http-8080-1] INFO          com.bsp.app.InjectingExample - InjectionExample init [@] 
12:05:18.200 [http-8080-1] INFO          com.bsp.app.InjectingExample - InjectionExample tries to say hello ... [@] 
12:05:18.200 [http-8080-1] ERROR         com.bsp.app.ApplicationContextListener - Error (injection failed?) [@] 
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.bsp.app.InjectingExample.sayHello(InjectingExample.java:21) [InjectingExample.class:na]
    at com.bsp.app.ApplicationContextListener.contextInitialized(ApplicationContextListener.java:20) [ApplicationContextListener.class:na]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4135) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4630) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:905) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:525) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1359) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) [na:1.6.0_18]
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) [na:1.6.0_18]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) [na:1.6.0_18]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) [na:1.6.0_18]
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:297) [tomcat-coyote.jar:6.0.29]
    at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:836) [na:1.6.0_18]
    at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:761) [na:1.6.0_18]
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.check(ManagerServlet.java:1500) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.deploy(ManagerServlet.java:670) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.doPut(ManagerServlet.java:435) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:640) [servlet-api.jar:na]
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) [servlet-api.jar:na]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:563) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) [catalina.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:857) [tomcat-coyote.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588) [tomcat-coyote.jar:6.0.29]
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489) [tomcat-coyote.jar:6.0.29]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) [na:1.6.0_18]
12:05:18.200 [http-8080-1] INFO   TEC    com.bsp.app.ApplicationContextListener - >>>>> Startup DONE >>>>> [@]
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