Andrew Rubinger [http://community.jboss.org/people/ALRubinger] replied to the discussion "Deferring instance creation/injection to CDI" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/556161#556161 -------------------------------------------------------------- I believe I've now released something which accounts for this. http://github.com/jbossejb3/jboss-ejb3-bean-instantiator http://github.com/jbossejb3/jboss-ejb3-bean-instantiator The above has been released as 1.0.0-alpha-1 and integrated into ejb3-core (ie. we now use the abstraction for EJB bean instance creation).  This has not yet been integrated into AS yet (as that relies upon a release of core, which is a formal release chain). The general idea is that you create an implementation of the SPI, and create an MC bean called NAME_BEAN_INSTANCE_INSTANTIATOR from http://github.com/jbossejb3/jboss-ejb3-bean-instantiator/blob/master/spi/... http://github.com/jbossejb3/jboss-ejb3-bean-instantiator/blob/master/spi/... Once you do this, the deployer impl will pick it up and wire things along such that the EJBContainer uses it.  So make one artifact which implements jboss-ejb3-instantiator-spi, and inside it put the impl class and a META-INF/weld-bean-instantiator-jboss-beans.xml which may look like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>   <!--     Declares a EJB3 Bean Instantiator --> <deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0">   <bean name="org.jboss.ejb3.bean.BeanInstantiator"     class="org.jboss.ejb3.instantiator.impl.Ejb31SpecBeanInstantiator" /> </deployment> Check out the layout of the jboss-ejb3-instantiator-impl module for our current legacy impl.  Basically you'll be writing the same thing. :) Also note that we currently don't support any construction parameters.  ejb3-core doesn't have any available to pass along.  So even though the contract accepts construction params, I'm passing in Object[]{}.  If that needs to be addressed...let me know and we'll figure something. I'm pretty sure we could do this too.  We have this bit of code, though I haven't verified if it's currently used or cruft: public Object createInterceptor(Class<?> interceptorClass) throws InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException    {       Object instance = interceptorClass.newInstance();       InterceptorInjector interceptorInjector = interceptorInjectors.get(interceptorClass);       assert interceptorInjector != null : "interceptorInjector not found for " + interceptorClass;       interceptorInjector.inject(null, instance);       return instance;    } Plenty of room in there to both abstract away the instantiation or give some post-instantiation callback before the instance is returned. S, ALR -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/556161#556161] Start a new discussion in EJB 3.0 Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]