How can I disable Omnifaces facesviews ? Or at least get rid of that exception?

I'm currently getting in touch with a part of our application that have been developped by a team that is now defunct, and encountering strange issues.

This application is deployed as an EAR, containing an EJB-JAR and three distinct web-applications (one for SOAP services, one for web UI, and so on, ...).

When trying to deploy that application, i'm having constant deploy errors like the following

[#|2013-12-31T11:05:45.236+0100|SEVERE|glassfish3.1.1|org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase|_ThreadID=18;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: javax.servlet.ServletException: com.sun.enterprise.container.common.spi.util.InjectionException: Error creating managed object for class: class org.omnifaces.facesviews.FacesViewsInitializerListener at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5332) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:498) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:917) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:733) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:2000) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1651) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:109) at org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:130) at org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:269) at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:294) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:462) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:240) at org.glassfish.deployment.admin.DeployCommand.execute(DeployCommand.java:382) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$1.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:355) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:370) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.doCommand(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1064) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl.access$1200(CommandRunnerImpl.java:96) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1244) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.CommandRunnerImpl$ExecutionContext.execute(CommandRunnerImpl.java:1232) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.doCommand(AdminAdapter.java:459) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.admin.AdminAdapter.service(AdminAdapter.java:209) at com.sun.grizzly.tcp.http11.GrizzlyAdapter.service(GrizzlyAdapter.java:168) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.HK2Dispatcher.dispath(HK2Dispatcher.java:117) at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:238) at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:828) at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:725) at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:1019) at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:225) at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:137) at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:104) at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:90) at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:79) at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:54) at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:59) at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:71) at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:532) at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:513) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: javax.servlet.ServletException: com.sun.enterprise.container.common.spi.util.InjectionException: Error creating managed object for class: class org.omnifaces.facesviews.FacesViewsInitializerListener at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.addListener(StandardContext.java:2743) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.addApplicationListener(StandardContext.java:1966) at com.sun.enterprise.web.TomcatDeploymentConfig.configureApplicationListener(TomcatDeploymentConfig.java:235) at com.sun.enterprise.web.TomcatDeploymentConfig.configureWebModule(TomcatDeploymentConfig.java:94) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModuleContextConfig.start(WebModuleContextConfig.java:274) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModuleContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(WebModuleContextConfig.java:172) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:149) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5329) ... 38 moreCaused by: javax.servlet.ServletException: com.sun.enterprise.container.common.spi.util.InjectionException: Error creating managed object for class: class org.omnifaces.facesviews.FacesViewsInitializerListener at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.createListener(StandardContext.java:2853) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadListener(StandardContext.java:4806) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.loadListener(WebModule.java:1599) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.addListener(StandardContext.java:2740) ... 45 moreCaused by: com.sun.enterprise.container.common.spi.util.InjectionException: Error creating managed object for class: class org.omnifaces.facesviews.FacesViewsInitializerListener at com.sun.enterprise.container.common.impl.util.InjectionManagerImpl.createManagedObject(InjectionManagerImpl.java:315) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.createListenerInstance(WebContainer.java:749) at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.createListenerInstance(WebModule.java:1987) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.createListener(StandardContext.java:2851) ... 48 moreCaused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.enterprise.container.common.impl.managedbean.ManagedBeanManagerImpl.createManagedBean(ManagedBeanManagerImpl.java:477) at com.sun.enterprise.container.common.impl.managedbean.ManagedBeanManagerImpl.createManagedBean(ManagedBeanManagerImpl.java:420) at com.sun.enterprise.container.common.impl.util.InjectionManagerImpl.createManagedObject(InjectionManagerImpl.java:299) ... 51 more

Application is deployed on a Glassfish 3.1.1 and that exception totally prevents the EAR from being deployed. How can i fix it ?

I've read this very component has for sole role to allow Omnifaces FacesView to work. But we don't use that feature. So how can I totally p^revent it from being loaded ?.

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