WELD-001408: Unsatisfied dependencies for type Customer with qualifiers @Default

Your Customer class has to be discovered by CDI as a bean. For that you have two options:

1. Put a bean defining annotation on it. As @Model is a stereotype it’s why it does the trick. A qualifier like @Named is not a bean defining annotation, reason why it doesn’t work

2. Change the bean discovery mode in your bean archive from the default “annotated” to “all” by adding a beans.xml file in your jar.

Keep in mind that @Named has only one usage : expose your bean to the UI. Other usages are for bad practice or compatibility with legacy framework.