CDI inclusion in JSF 2.1.22 causes java.lang.InstantiationException: org.jboss.as.weld.webtier.jsf.WeldApplicationFactory

Issue

• In an ear application, there is a web application that uses JSF 2.1, with org.jboss.jbossfaces.WAR_BUNDLES_JSF_IMPL set to true.
• The JSF implementation uses Apache Tomahawk for JSF 2.1.22.
• When trying to use CDI putting the beans.xml in the web app WEB-INF folder, the web application stops to deploy causing the following exception:

Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: org.jboss.as.weld.webtier.jsf.WeldApplicationFactory