Why doesn't JSF 2.0 RI (Mojarra) scan my class' annotations?

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Published on 2010-06-07T05:32:04Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 5:52 UTC
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I have a War and Jar project in my Eclipse-based JSF project. I have decided to use annotations to declare my FacesConverter, (among a myriad other things), rather than declare it using my faces-config.xml.

@FacesConverter(value="passwordFieldStringConverter")
public class PasswordFieldStringConverter implements Converter {

 public Object getAsObject(FacesContext arg0, UIComponent arg1, String arg2) throws ConverterException {
  try {
   return arg2.getBytes("UTF-16BE");
  }
  catch(UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
   Assert.impossibleException(uee);
  }

  return(null);
 }

 public String getAsString(FacesContext arg0, UIComponent arg1, Object arg2) throws ConverterException {
  try {
   return new String((byte[]) arg2, "UTF-16BE");
  }
  catch(UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
   Assert.impossibleException(uee);
  }

  return(null);  
 }

}

And then I use passwordFieldStringConverter directly in my .xhtml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
   xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
      xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" 
      xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
      xmlns:sec="http://www.springframework.org/security/facelets/tags">
 <ui:composition>
  <f:view>
      <f:loadBundle basename="landingPage.bundle" var="bundle" /> 

   <ui:decorate template="/WEB-INF/jsf_helpers/htmlShell.xhtml">
    <ui:param name="PageTitleParam" value="#{bundle.pageTitle}" />

    <h:form>
      <h:dataTable var="rowVar" value="#{userListContainer.users}">
       <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText value="Users you are currently managing:" /></f:facet>
       <h:column>
        <f:facet name="header">
         <h:outputText value="Screen Name" />
        </f:facet>
        <h:outputText value="#{rowVar.screenName}" />
    </h:column>
       <h:column>
        <f:facet name="header">
         <h:outputText value="Password" />
        </f:facet>
        <h:outputText value="#{rowVar.password}">
         <f:converter converterId="passwordFieldStringConverter" />
        </h:outputText>
       </h:column>
      </h:dataTable>
    </h:form>
   </ui:decorate>
  </f:view>
 </ui:composition>
</html>

JSF is supposed to scan the jars in my War at deployment-time and detect which classes have annotations on them (and auto-configure the application accordingly). My problem is that JSF is apparently not detecting the classes I have which sport annotations.

The War project has all of my .xhtml files as well as the project's faces-config.xml, my Jar project has all of my faces related Java code (action beans, managed beans, custom converters, etc.)

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