[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-14?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.sys... ] Pete Muir commented on CDI-14: ------------------------------ The original proposal is to add a utility method to BeanManager which returns an Instance<Object> which can be used to do programmatic lookup. Apart from the isDependentScoped method Instance exposes all of the methods you have above, and also allows for subselection. We can add a select(String beanName) to Instance easily if needed (Rick indicates that it is). This prevents us duplicating an existing API and means we don't have to make BM much more complex. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira