Problema no cadastro de classes herdadas com o Vraptor e Converter

Estou tentando fazer um cadastro de pessoa física e jurídica porém quando tento implantar o converter do vraptor e ele acusa um erro no qual não sei como resolver, já pesquisei em diversos tópicos aqui do GUJ porém não obtive sucesso.

As classes estão implementadas da seguinte forma:

public class Pessoa{…}
public class PessoaFisica extends Pessoa{…}
public class PessoaJuridica extends Pessoa{…}

@RequestScoped
@Convert(Pessoa.class)
public class PessoaConverter implements Converter<Pessoa> {

    @Override
    public Pessoa convert(String value, Class<? extends Pessoa> type, ResourceBundle bundle) {

        try {
            if (value.equals("PessoaFisica")) {
                return new PessoaFisica();
            } else if (value.equals("PessoaJuridica")) {
                return new PessoaJuridica();
            } else {
                throw new RuntimeException("Tipo nao pode ser diferente de Pessoa Física ou Pessoa Jurídica");
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Converter: "+e.toString());
        }
        return null;
    }
}

Erro

GRAVE: Exception starting filter vraptor
br.com.caelum.vraptor.VRaptorException: converter does not implement Converter
	at br.com.caelum.vraptor.ioc.ConverterHandler.handle(ConverterHandler.java:52)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.jboss.weld.injection.MethodInjectionPoint.invokeOnInstanceWithSpecialValue(MethodInjectionPoint.java:93)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:266)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:253)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.notify(ObserverMethodImpl.java:232)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverNotifier.notifyObserver(ObserverNotifier.java:169)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverNotifier.notifyObserver(ObserverNotifier.java:165)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverNotifier.notifyObservers(ObserverNotifier.java:119)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverNotifier.fireEvent(ObserverNotifier.java:112)
	at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.fireEvent(BeanManagerImpl.java:664)
	at org.jboss.weld.util.ForwardingBeanManager.fireEvent(ForwardingBeanManager.java:101)
	at br.com.caelum.vraptor.ioc.cdi.StereotypesRegistry.configure(StereotypesRegistry.java:54)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.jboss.weld.injection.MethodInjectionPoint.invokeOnInstanceWithSpecialValue(MethodInjectionPoint.java:93)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:266)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:253)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.notify(ObserverMethodImpl.java:232)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverNotifier.notifyObserver(ObserverNotifier.java:169)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverNotifier.notifyObserver(ObserverNotifier.java:165)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverNotifier.notifyObservers(ObserverNotifier.java:119)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverNotifier.fireEvent(ObserverNotifier.java:112)
	at org.jboss.weld.event.EventImpl.fire(EventImpl.java:83)
	at br.com.caelum.vraptor.VRaptor.init(VRaptor.java:94)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:279)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:260)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:105)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4950)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5652)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:1009)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:985)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:652)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:712)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:587)
	at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1815)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:301)
	at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:819)
	at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:801)
	at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.check(ManagerServlet.java:1506)
	at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.deploy(ManagerServlet.java:902)
	at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.doGet(ManagerServlet.java:361)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:624)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:731)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
	at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
	at org.apache.catalina.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:108)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:219)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:110)
	at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:615)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:169)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:962)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:445)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1115)
	at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:637)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(AprEndpoint.java:2549)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(AprEndpoint.java:2538)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Alguém poderia me ajudar com isso?