title: Weld on WebSphere 8
body: <p>Is it possible to replace WebSphere 8's CDI provider (OpenWebBeans) with Weld? Failing that, is there any way to simply disable CDI altogether in WebSphere?</p>
  
  <p>Why would I need this? We have a project that was developed against Weld, and unfortunately we've found that it relies on a number of Weld idiosyncrasies. We're able to successfully bootstrap Weld via <code>org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.Listener</code> in Tomcat and Jetty, but WebSphere's built-in CDI implementation seem to be interfering.</p>