From: Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; To: Mark Struberg <struberg(a)yahoo.de&gt; Cc: cdi-dev <cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [cdi-dev] cyclic references I don't believe the spec is updated for this. BTW I assume you mean *calling* cyclic references from those methods? On 24 Nov 2012, at 16:58, Mark Struberg wrote: > Hi Folks! > > I know we already discussed that cyclic references in @PostConstruct and @Inject methods are not allowed (btw, did we also nail this down in the spec properly? This is implicitly defined in commons-annotations). > > But what about @PreDestroy? As the destroy order is not defined for normalscoped beans it could happen that a bean already got wiped and destroyed while another one likes to access it. So it's not only a problem of cycles, but might also happen without. > > sample: > > @RequestScoped > > public class BeanA { >   @Inject BeanB b; > >   @PreDestroy >   public void destroyMe() { >     b.dosomething(); >   } > } > > and > > > @RequestScoped > > public class BeanB { >   public void dosomething() {..} > >   @PreDestroy >   public void dropDatabaseConnection() {...} > > } > > Now lets imagine that BeanB got destroyed earlier than BeanA .... > > > It's atm purely random. Imo this is ok, but should we point users to this behaviour? > > LieGrue, > strub > > > _______________________________________________ > cdi-dev mailing list > cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev