> Marius Bogoevici wrote: > > 2) EJB container provides a hook for preprocessing interceptors after instantiation. The main reason is that EJB interceptors may be CDI-injected > (note: could we reuse the same mechanism as for EJB instantiation, since it boils down to producing an instance of the class? ) 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.