Hi, This was on my hackaton todo list, I guess I'm a bit late, but getting to it now ...
CDI is the building brick for many other popular libraries and frameworks, including JAX-RS (Apache CXF), Eclipse Microprofile, etc. Looking at the CDI implementation from the ASF, I am not fully satisfied with the integration or packaging of OWB in the context of Tomcat. Since it's such an important building block, I wanted to do something about it and be able to have something that played better with Tomcat standalone, in addition to embedded (that is well covered !). As a result, I took on the task to take over the Tomcat(7 ;) ) integration that was in OWB. I'm working on it here: https://github.com/rmaucher/tomcat-owb The packaging is a big jar that is not done yet (the APIs would of course be separate JARs, but the goal is to have a big-OWB JAR tuned for Tomcat with the rest). Eventually if it works well enough, I would move it to https://github.com/apache/tomcat/tree/master/modules Note: I'm not a fan of the OWB configuration, it looks rather cryptic to me (properties files spread across all the JARs, I guess that's pluggable - even though it's not really needed here). I will look at that area for Tomcat specific improvements (the main listener could be used for configuration). Note 2: Apache CXF is quite the same first impression, when I download it I find a "lib/WHICH_JARS" file, which kind of says it all. So after OWB, it's possible there would be another tomcat-cxf module, which would be packaging only (I hope/expect the integration, which uses CDI and Servlets, will not need any real improvements). Comments ? Rémy
