Also forgot to attach the code snippet:<div><br></div><div><div>  protected void injectNonContextualInstance(BeanManager manager, Object instance)</div><div>   {</div><div>      CreationalContext&lt;Object&gt; creationalContext =  manager.createCreationalContext(null);</div>

<div>      InjectionTarget&lt;Object&gt; injectionTarget = (InjectionTarget&lt;Object&gt;) manager.createInjectionTarget(</div><div>            manager.createAnnotatedType(instance.getClass()));</div><div>      injectionTarget.inject(instance, creationalContext);</div>

<div>   }</div><div><br></div><div>-Dan</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 15:15, Dan Allen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dan.j.allen@gmail.com">dan.j.allen@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 15:14, Dan Allen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dan.j.allen@gmail.com" target="_blank">dan.j.allen@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


Yes. What you want to accomplish is called &quot;injecting into a non-contextual instance&quot;, or in other words &quot;injecting into a non-bean instance&quot;. The object is an injection target.<div><br></div></blockquote>


</div><div>I meant: in other words, &quot;injecting into a non-managed instance&quot;.  </div><div><br></div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">-- <br><div>Dan Allen</div>Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action<br>

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