As per Section 12.1 of CDI 1.0 specification:
> • The WEB-INF/classes directory of a war is a bean archive if there is a file named beans.xml in the WEB-INF directory of the war.
> • A directory in the JVM classpath is a bean archive if it has a file named beans.xml in the META-INF directory.

However the jsf/permalink sample bundles beans.xml under WEB-INF/classes/META-INF. This may not work in other containers (for instance see http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-15009 ). So request to move the file (in weld-core): from
examples/jsf/permalink/src/main/resources/META-INF/beans.xml
to
examples/jsf/permalink/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/beans.xml