Tomcat with CDI

Sample maven project using Tomcat with CDI support (Weld implementation).

Build

In order to build the whole project run:

$ mvn clean package

This command creates deployable tomcat-cdi.war file in your target/ folder.

Deploy

First ensure your Tomcat instance is running and deploy tomcat-cdi.war, either via GUI or by copying to webapps folder.

After successful deploy, you should see a similar message in log:

dd-M-YYYY HH:MM:sS. INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.jboss.weld.environment.tomcat.TomcatContainer.initialize WELD-ENV-001100:
Tomcat 7+ detected, CDI injection will be available in Servlets, Filters and Listeners.

which means Weld has found injection points along with their respective CDI beans.

Test it!

Open your web-browser and access localhost:8080/tomcat-cdi/hello-cdi (by default).

You should see:

Hello CDI

printed on your screen.

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Deeper explanation can be found at hradecek.github.io/cdi-intomcat.