Container lifecycle events and context initialization events are synchronous ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: CDI-566 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-566 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Clarification Components: Events Affects Versions: 2.0-EDR1 Reporter: Martin Kouba Fix For: 2.0-EDR2 I believe this should be more explicit. Also portable extensions should be encouraged to fire sync events when a custom context is initialized, see also 6.7. Context management for built-in scopes.