[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-14?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.sys... ] Richard Hightower commented on CDI-14: -------------------------------------- Peter et al, good points. So Instance is the way to do this, and if you expose and instance, you can use instance. Got it. Lincoln, We wrote a utility class as well and we use that a lot. I don't think we are normal users (in every sense of the word) :). I just think adding a couple of extra methods that hide the details of Instance is a good idea for an easier to use API. I am guessing that not everyone wants to be an expert on CDI, but they may want to grab a bean. I know I was quite surprised the amount of learning curve it took me to just look a bean up by name. I compare this to the Spring applicationContext, which does have these types of methods. I just think that BeanManager should have some easy to use facade methods to do common things. There are a lot of people who don't care so much about instance and low level details of CDI. They just want a darn bean. :) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira