I think the usual way would be to use JSF and CDI beans instead of using EJBs and Servlets though. The only thing that is quite annoying is creating the web.xml

I think the usual way would be to use JSF and CDI beans instead of using EJBs and Servlets though. The only thing that is quite annoying is creating the web.xml from scratch for the first time. The shown approach is rather bad for simple (and modern) Hello World.