I do something really lazy, I have an extension that has this method on it:
public void findEntities(@Observes @WithAnnotations(Entity.class) ProcessAnnotatedType<?> pat) which just looks for entity classes. They're not going to be CDI beans, but they are annotated types. Per the spec, https://docs.jboss.org/cdi/api/2.0/javax/enterprise/inject/spi/ProcessAnnotatedType.html , the event should get fired, even if there are no bean defining annotations. Switching beans.xml to use bean-discovery-mode=all fixes it, but I'd prefer to not discover these as beans. Using a <beans bean-discovery-mode="all" version="2.0"><trim/></beans> does fix it. But either way, my understanding is that PAT is always fired, for all classes found within a bean archive. John
