Bean defining annotation (as currently specified) cannot be used for bean discovery ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: CDI-345 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-345 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Bug Components: Portable Extensions Affects Versions: 1.1.PFD Reporter: Jozef Hartinger Assignee: Pete Muir Priority: Blocker Fix For: 1.1.FD {quote}Any scope type, which *has an associated context* (as defined in Chapter 6), is a bean defining annotation{quote} {quote}First the container must discover types. The container discovers: • each Java class, interface or enum deployed in an explicit bean archive, and • each Java class interface, or enum with a *bean defining annotation* in an implicit bean archive. {quote} The set of context cannot be enumerated until the AfterBeanDiscovery phase in which extensions register contexts. This creates a chicken-egg problem.