Yes, imo the things which are not yet clear are the order between @Inject and @PostConstruct, and wha happens if we have a class hierarchy. LieGrue, strub --- On Fri, 9/30/11, Arne Limburg <arne.limburg(a)openknowledge.de&gt; wrote: From: Arne Limburg <arne.limburg(a)openknowledge.de&gt; Subject: Antw.: [cdi-dev] @PostConstruct and @Inject methods in superclasses To: &quot;stuart.w.douglas(a)gmail.com&quot; <stuart.w.douglas(a)gmail.com&gt;, &quot;struberg(a)yahoo.de&quot; <struberg(a)yahoo.de&gt; Cc: &quot;cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&quot; <cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; Date: Friday, September 30, 2011, 10:18 PM Hi, for @Inject there is an order specified in JSR 330. Imho we should specify that same order for @Postconstruct if we have specification for it yet. Regards, Arne ----- Reply message ----- Von: "Stuart Douglas" <stuart.w.douglas(a)gmail.com&gt; Datum: Fr., Sep. 30, 2011 23:58 Betreff: [cdi-dev] @PostConstruct and @Inject methods in superclasses An: "Mark Struberg" <struberg(a)yahoo.de&gt; Cc: "cdi-dev" <cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; This is actually covered by the interceptors specification, from memory I am pretty sure the base class method is mean't to be called first, but the spec gives you the full order. @Inject methods are called before @PostConstuct (the are called in InjectionTarget.inject, which gets called before InjectionTarget.postConstruct). I don't think we specify an order for @Inject methods. Stuart On 01/10/2011, at 5:47 AM, Mark Struberg wrote: _______________________________________________ cdi-dev mailing list cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev