The attached spec draft aims to address the following criticisms made by Sun, IBM and others: * the the spec is difficult to read and understand * that the spec defines too many implementation details I've made the following major sets of changes: * redefinition of all semantics without reference to BeanManager * separation of material relating to the BeanManager, Bean and framework integration into a separate chapter * overall reorganization or material In order to make it possible to define all semantics in words instead of code, several new terms were defined: * injectable reference * contextual reference * contextual instance I've also partially written up several proposals from other threads: * annotation-based event mappings * new APIs to simplify implementation of the Bean interface * changes to the BeanManager interface * enhancement to the Instance interface * renamed @Initialized / @Deployed to @AfterBeanDiscovery / @AfterDependencyValidation Overall, I believe that this is a really major improvement, but it certainly needs a really thorough review, especially the following sections: * 6.5, 6.4.2 * 5.4 - 5.6 * 9.2 - 9.4 -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin http://hibernate.org http://seamframework.org