I am trying to create a simple hello world test using JSF and CDI

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Asked: June 11, 20262026-06-11T15:15:03+00:00 2026-06-11T15:15:03+00:00

I am trying to create a simple hello world test using JSF and CDI

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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.