One of the principal goals of CDI is to make the Java EE programming model far more extensible - from adding basic functionality to full-scale integration with third-party software. Piotr Nowicki demonstrates this well by doing something pretty simple but common and useful - injecting a value from a Java .properties file into any managed bean using CDI @Produces and InjectionPoint. Note that the Core module of the Apache DeltaSpike project also includes similar functionality. In case you are unaware of Apache DeltaSpike, it is the de-facto collection of CDI portable extensions (it is the successor to both Seam 3 and Apache CODI).

Both Piotr's code and Apache DeltaSpike inject values from property files only. One useful addition could be to also support Java environment variables. Perhaps this inspires you enough to create your own CDI portable extension for injecting properties or contribute to DeltaSpike :-)? Interestingly, there is a similar discussion on JAVAEE_SPEC-19. Perhaps this is an area for the emergent Java EE Configuration JSR to look into?