diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 68a0bac96..6dbd9c5ad 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
         <commonslang>2.6</commonslang>
         <elasticsearch>5.5.0</elasticsearch>
         <springdata.commons>2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</springdata.commons>
-		<java-module-name>spring.data.elasticsearch</java-module-name>
+        <java-module-name>spring.data.elasticsearch</java-module-name>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -129,19 +129,37 @@
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>javax.annotation</groupId>
-			<artifactId>javax.annotation-api</artifactId>
-			<version>${javax-annotation-api}</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans.test</groupId>
+            <artifactId>cditest-owb</artifactId>
+            <version>1.2.8</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>geronimo-jcdi_1.0_spec</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>geronimo-atinject_1.0_spec</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
+        </dependency>
+        
+        <!-- Upgrade xbean to 4.5 to prevent incompatibilities due to ASM versions -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.xbean</groupId>
+            <artifactId>xbean-asm5-shaded</artifactId>
+            <version>4.5</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
 
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.apache.openwebbeans</groupId>
-			<artifactId>openwebbeans-se</artifactId>
-			<version>${webbeans}</version>
-			<scope>test</scope>
-		</dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+            <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
+            <version>3.0-alpha-1</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
       <!-- required by elasticsearch -->
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/elasticsearch/repositories/cdi/CdiRepositoryTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/elasticsearch/repositories/cdi/CdiRepositoryTests.java
index dc6a00c79..afb5eb646 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/elasticsearch/repositories/cdi/CdiRepositoryTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/elasticsearch/repositories/cdi/CdiRepositoryTests.java
@@ -20,9 +20,8 @@ import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 import java.util.Optional;
 
-import javax.enterprise.inject.se.SeContainer;
-import javax.enterprise.inject.se.SeContainerInitializer;
-
+import org.apache.webbeans.cditest.CdiTestContainer;
+import org.apache.webbeans.cditest.CdiTestContainerLoader;
 import org.junit.AfterClass;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
@@ -36,29 +35,30 @@ import org.springframework.data.elasticsearch.entities.Product;
  */
 public class CdiRepositoryTests {
 
-	private static SeContainer cdiContainer;
+	private static CdiTestContainer cdiContainer;
 	private CdiProductRepository repository;
 	private SamplePersonRepository personRepository;
 	private QualifiedProductRepository qualifiedProductRepository;
 
 	@BeforeClass
-	public static void init() {
+	public static void init() throws Exception {
 
-		cdiContainer = SeContainerInitializer.newInstance() //
-				.disableDiscovery() //
-				.addPackages(CdiRepositoryClient.class) //
-				.initialize();
+		cdiContainer = CdiTestContainerLoader.getCdiContainer();
+		cdiContainer.startApplicationScope();
+		cdiContainer.bootContainer();
 	}
 
 	@AfterClass
-	public static void shutdown() {
-		cdiContainer.close();
+	public static void shutdown() throws Exception {
+
+		cdiContainer.stopContexts();
+		cdiContainer.shutdownContainer();
 	}
 
 	@Before
 	public void setUp() {
 
-		CdiRepositoryClient client = cdiContainer.select(CdiRepositoryClient.class).get();
+		CdiRepositoryClient client = cdiContainer.getInstance(CdiRepositoryClient.class);
 		repository = client.getRepository();
 		personRepository = client.getSamplePersonRepository();
 		repository.deleteAll();
diff --git a/src/test/resources/META-INF/beans.xml b/src/test/resources/META-INF/beans.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4ca8195be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/META-INF/beans.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/beans_1_0.xsd">
+</beans>