Select Menu JSF to CDI differences - jsf-2

Question

I want to use the arquillian warp test framework for a JSF project I am developing. I understand that I need to use the CDI annotations instead of the JSF ones to get this to work. I am using #ViewScoped beans so I have included seam-faces in my project to deal with this (i am running on JBoss 7). I have modified my beans to use #Named and where I was using #PostConstruct I have put this into the constructor which all seems to be okay.
When I access a view with a selectOneMenu it never has any list items. Here is the code form the view and the bean.
View:
<h:selectOneMenu value="#{ngoBean.ngo.country}" >
<f:selectItems value="#{ngoBean.countryValues}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>
Bean:
import com.a.Facade;
import com.a.CountryEnum;
import com.a.GoverningBody;
import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.ejb.EJB;
import javax.faces.bean.ViewScoped;
import javax.faces.model.SelectItem;
import javax.inject.Named;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
/**
* Created with IntelliJ IDEA.
*/
#Named("ngoBean")
#ViewScoped
public class NgoBean implements Serializable {
private GoverningBody ngo = new GoverningBody();
private List<GoverningBody> ngoList;
private boolean edit;
private List<SelectItem> countryValues;
#EJB(beanName = "NgoFacadeImpl")
private Facade<GoverningBody> ngoController;
public NgoBean(){
}
#PostConstruct
public void init(){
//TODO this is a bad way of loading db data i should change it
ngoList = ngoController.findAll();
countryValues = initCountryValues();
}
public void add(){
ngoList.add(ngoController.save(ngo));
//reset the variable
ngo = new GoverningBody();
}
public void edit(GoverningBody item) {
this.ngo = item;
edit = true;
}
public void save() {
ngo = ngoController.update(ngo);
edit = false;
}
public void delete(GoverningBody item) {
ngoController.delete(item);
ngoList.remove(item);
}
public List<GoverningBody> getNgoList() {
return ngoList;
}
public GoverningBody getNgo() {
return ngo;
}
public boolean isEdit() {
return edit;
}
public List<SelectItem> getCountryValues() {
return countryValues;
}
public void setCountryValues(List<SelectItem> countryValues) {
this.countryValues = countryValues;
}
public List<SelectItem> initCountryValues() {
List<SelectItem> items = new ArrayList<>(CountryEnum.values().length);
int i = 0;
for(CountryEnum g: CountryEnum.values()) {
items.add(new SelectItem(g, g.getName()));
}
System.out.println("items = " + items);
return items;
}
}
I tried annotating the method with #Factory("countryValues") but this didn't seem to help.

Answer 1

This problem was unrelated to the symptom. The root cause of the problem was an incorrectly located beans.xml this should have be in the WEB-INF directory of the war not the META-INF directory of the ear.
I also changed the seam-faces dependency to use apache CODI, this is not necessary but this uses #ViewAccessScoped instead of #ViewScoped the different name is less ambiguous I think.