Java EE Qualifier annotation not picked up

Question

I am following a simple Java EE 6 annotations video on youtube. I have created a repo on github. There is a servlet to start with that creates a greeting string using annotation.

@WebServlet(urlPatterns = {"/HelloServlet"})
public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet {

    @Inject @Formal
    String greetingMessage;
...
}

The formal qualifier is defined as follows:

@Qualifier
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target({TYPE, METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER})
public @interface Formal {}

And the producer is:

public class ProduceFormalGreeting {

    @Produces
    @Formal
    public String GetFormalGreeting(){
        return "Good morning !";
    }
}

At compile time I get the following message from NetBeans:

Unsatisfied Dependency: No bean matches the inject point

At runtime, the string is null in the servlet.

Answer 1

You have to add beans.xml file to WEB-INF. Now You have bean.xml file.

In ProduceFormalGreeting u have to use javax.enterprise.inject.Produces (not javax.ws.rs.Produces)