Observer in DeltaSpike 1.2.0/Weld 1.1.19.Final Not Working

[Deven Phillips]

I'm trying to implement a suggestion from John Ament based this gist:

https://gist.github.com/johnament/442e0aa78b7557535545

My code looks something like:

            // Initialize DeltaSpike Dependency Injection of JavaSE
            // This will also cause some back-end setup to begin
            LOG.debug("Starting CDI Container and Contexts");
            CdiContainer cdiContainer =
CdiContainerLoader.getCdiContainer();
            cdiContainer.boot();
            ContextControl ctxControl = cdiContainer.getContextControl();
            ctxControl.startContexts();

            // Create an ObjectFactory for the JaxRsApplication to be able
            // to inject dependencies
            CdiObjectFactory objFactory = new CdiObjectFactory();

            // Send an event to DeltaSpike to load the config into
            // the application scope
            LOG.debug("Firing event to load configuration into Application
scope");
            try {
                BeanManager bm = objFactory.getInstance(BeanManager.class);
                bm.fireEvent(config);
            } catch (InstantiateException ex) {
                LOG.error("Error getting BeanManager from objFactory", ex);
                throw new RuntimeException(ex);
            }

The problem is, the observer bean never sees the event. I can trace and
step through and it never receives the event... Any thoughts on what I may
be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!!

Deven