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CDIUI + CDI-helpers with CDI events
Warning I'm not an expert in cdi, but here goes.
CDIView is @ViewScoped, the observer view is not in the same scope as the one that fires the event.
http://docs.jboss.org/cdi/spec/1.2/cdi-spec.html#observers_method_invocation
In particular
if the observer method is non-static, the container must:
Obtain a contextual instance of the bean which declares the observer method according to Contextual instance of a bean. If this observer method is a conditional observer method, obtain the contextual instance that already exists, only if the scope of the bean that declares the observer method is currently active, without creating a new contextual instance.
So you are creating an instance of the Observer view for the same scope as the event originator so that cdi can call the observer method on the contextual instance. There might be some cdi magic tricks with qualifiers to change the behaviour, but I simply don't know the spec well enough to pull one out of the hat.
In a geniric case it might be better to use the classic Listener/Event Pattern implementation to comunicate between the views.
If you have only one of each view in the ui ( as is the case with CDIViews usually ) you could probably observe the event in the UI and delegate it from there to the observer view.