I am having two classes: Foo and Bar where Bar extends Foo. Both these classes are outside of BDA (a jar with no beans.xml placed in WEB-INF/lib of a web app that has beans.xml) The Bar class is registered through a portable Extension (BeforeBeanDiscovery.addAnnotatedType()).

The problem is that while injection/initializers/event observers defined on the Bar class work as expected, the ones defined on the Foo class are never called. (Note that the Foo class itself is not registered as a Bean - Nevertheless, CDI services should be enabled on Bar's superclasses according to the spec)