[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-14?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.sys... ] Mark Struberg commented on CDI-14: ---------------------------------- I'd keep it in the BeanManager. Having to code 1 static singleton lookup is ugly enough. Btw, please NOT JNDI again. JNDI really sucks! The JNDI spec is a splitter bomb cross over the whole JCP. You will find 20++ JSRs which define name spaces + behaviour, etc. Parts got cleaned up in EE6 (or was it 5?), but it's still broken and non-portable across AppServers to big degrees. An example: try to register a Seam2/Hibernate datasource which works in different EE Servers without changing the JNDI name... This is just broken... Also: there are a lot environments which either not have a JNDI environment at all, or it's readonly. Just my 0.02 ... -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira