I’ve got two demo projects with slightly different project structure. One produces a WAR archive and the other one produces an EAR archive.

In the WAR-project the injection of an @EJB in the Backingbeans, @FacesConverter and @FacesValidator works as expected.

In the EAR-Project, the injection works only into the Backingbean, but not in @FacesConverter or @FacesValidator (although all three classes are in the same folder/jar). @PostConstruct is also not working in @FacesConverter and @FacesValidator (but in BackingBean), so I’m definitely missing something important. But what?

I checked/copied web.xml, faces-config.xml and beans.xml they are identical. beans.xml is under WEB-INF in the WAR-project and under META-INF in the ejb-Module of the EAR-project.

The @FacesConverter and @FacesValidator are marked with managed=true so CDI should work.

By default, I’m using Payara, but I tested it also on WildFly and the situation is the same (Mojarra 4.0.7).

I increased the log levels for some ...webcontainer.jsf... classes, but I don’t see any error or warning.

@FacesConverter(managed = true, value = "demoConverter")
public class DemoConverter implements Converter<DemoEntity>, Serializable {
   ...
   @EJB
   DemoRemote bean;
   
   int i;
   ...
   @PostConstruct
   public void init() {i=42;}

   @Override
   public DemoEntity getAsObject(FacesContext facesContext, UIComponent uiComponent, String s) {
      ...
      logger.info("[ (bean=" + bean + ") (i="+i+")] "); <-- bean always null and i=0!!!
      ...
   }
   ...
 }