I am already stuck solving injection of bean implementations into javax.enterprise.inject.Instance<SomeIFace>. I have couple of beans (EJB Singletons) which extend an abstract class which implements the SomeIFace - see the scenario below.

public interface SomeIFace {

    void doStuff();
}

Then there is an abstract class adopting the SomeIFace as follows:

public abstract class SomeAClass implements SomeIFace {

    @Resource
    private TimerService ts;

    public TimerService getTimerService() {
        return ts;
    }

    @Timeout
    public void timeout() {
        doStuff();
    }
}

Actual implementation of a managed bean extends the abstract class SomeAClass as follows:

@Singleton
@Startup
@TransactionManagement(TransactionManagementType.BEAN)
public class SomeClass extends SomeAClass {

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public void doStuff() {
        ...
    }
}

Then in another class I want to get references to all managed beans implementing the SomeIFace, i.e.:

@Inject
@Any
private Instance<SomeIFace> beans;

The problem is that the beans is empty!

When I add the SomeIFace to the implementing bean class explicitly again (i.e. public class SomeClass extends SomeAClass implements SomeIFace), the beans is not empty and a reference appears.

Is anyone able to explain, why I need to repeat the SomeIFace interface directly on bean implementations again to get CDI 1.2 working? In previous version of CDI it was working fine.

Thank you in advance!

Jiri