http://docs.jboss.org/weld/reference/latest/en-US/html_single/#weld-se

public static void main(String[] args) {
WeldContainer weld = new Weld().initialize();
weld.instance().select(MyApplicationBean.class).get();
weld.shutdown();
}

versus

http://www.jarvana.com/jarvana/view/org/jboss/weld/weld-se/1.0.1-Final/weld-se-1.0.1-Final-javadoc.jar!/org/jboss/weld/environment/se/WeldContainer.html

From which I conclude that the example's call to shutdown() is wrong.