Can the classpath scanning be controlled in Weld? - dependency-injection

Question

I was playing with Weld-SE (Java SE) and noticed that if there are a lot of JARs in the classpath, the JVM startup time runs into several seconds.
Isn't there a way to specify/restrict the scan path as a package pattern or path pattern like in Apache Ant or AspectJ?
PS: Registration on Weld forum just does not work - it keeps saying "your password is trivial"

Answer 1

Starting with weld 1.1.0, it is possible according to Weld reference documentation :
<beans xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:weld="http://jboss.org/schema/weld/beans"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://docs.jboss.org/cdi/beans_1_0.xsd
http://jboss.org/schema/weld/beans http://jboss.org/schema/weld/beans_1_1.xsd">
<weld:scan>
<weld:exclude name="mypackage.MyClass"/>
</weld:scan>
</beans>

Answer 2

You can with CDI 1.1. The 1st answer works fine, but this snippet works on any provider:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/beans_1_1.xsd"
version="1.1" bean-discovery-mode="all">
<scan>
<exclude name="my.cool.package" />
<!-- you can exclude with condition -->
<exclude name="my.cool.package.for.jodatime" />
<if-class-not-available name="org.joda.time.LocalDate"/>
</exclude>
</scan>
</beans>

Answer 3

Good questions, but I don't think it is possible. Each archive is scanned for beans.xml, by spec.