When running a distributed executor using the infinispan-embedded uber jar, without the CDI API classes on the classpath the following exception is thrown:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/infinispan/cdi/util/BeanManagerProvider
at org.infinispan.cdi.CDIDistributedTaskLifecycle.onPostExecute(CDIDistributedTaskLifecycle.java:35)
at org.infinispan.distexec.spi.DistributedTaskLifecycleService.onPostExecute(DistributedTaskLifecycleService.java:48)
at org.infinispan.commands.read.DistributedExecuteCommand.perform(DistributedExecuteCommand.java:100)
at org.infinispan.remoting.InboundInvocationHandlerImpl.handleInternal(InboundInvocationHandlerImpl.java:97)
at org.infinispan.remoting.InboundInvocationHandlerImpl.access$000(InboundInvocationHandlerImpl.java:52)
at org.infinispan.remoting.InboundInvocationHandlerImpl$2.run(InboundInvocationHandlerImpl.java:193)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)