Error when deploying using CDI on Glassfish

Question

I was playing around with CDI on Glassfish but did not get too far. As soon as I put an empyt beans.xml in /WebContent/META-INF I get the following error:

cannot Deploy CDI_Example Deployment Error for module: CDI_Example: Exception while loading the app : org.glassfish.deployment.common.DeploymentException: WELD-001201 Error loading beans.xml URL: null

The Weld documentation says the file may be empty but it looks like Glassfish v3 expects anything within the file.

Anybody got an idea?

Thx

Answer 1

"Empty" does not mean that beans.xml should be completely empty. It means that you don't have to specify anything, but it should at least contain the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/beans_1_0.xsd">
</beans>