Introduce BeanManager#getInstances() to ease instance resolution in custom SPI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: CDI-653 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-653 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Feature Request Reporter: Antoine Sabot-Durand Assignee: Antoine Sabot-Durand Fix For: 2.0 .Final Right now if you need a bean instance in one of your extension or custom SPI (i.e. instance of Bean A is needed to create Bean B) you have to write something like {code:java} Set<Bean<?>> beanSet = beanManager.getBeans(MyClass.class); Bean<?> bean = beanManager.resolve(beanSet); MyClass instance = (MyClass) beanManager.getReference(bean, MyClass.class, beanManager.createCreationalContext(bean)); {code} While it can be useful to get thru all this step of type safe resolution, a typical use case is: I need this contextual instance (or these contextual instances) to do conditional action according to its state. So providing a Bean Manager method returning an {{Instance<Object>}} could be a short cut that could help a lot of advanced developers: {code:java} beanManager.getInstances().select(MyClass.class).get(); {code}