Getting servers up and running can be quite a hassle. In my experience, choosing a full fledged JEE Server, without the needed support ends up usually in plenty of frustration. Maybe as an exercise in simplicity, or maybe out of frustration, I want to show how easy and clean it is to get a base Tomcat installation (no TomEE) to work with CDI and JSF. Base Tomcat basically is just a Servlet Contain