[webbeans-dev] CreationalContext

The alternate solution is something like: interface CreationalContext { <X> void add(Bean<X> bean, X instance); //registers an "incomplete" instance } interface Contextual<T> { public abstract T create(CreationalContext ctx); ... } interface Context { public <T> T get(Contextual<T> bean); //get any existing instance public <T> T get(Contextual<T> bean, CreationalContext ctx); //get or create an instance public Class<? extends Annotation> getScopeType(); boolean isActive(); } interface Manager { Object getInstanceToInject(CreationalContext ctx, InjectionPoint ij, Type type, Annotation... bindings); ... } And getInstanceToInject() would be smart enough to return any object that had already been registered with the CreationalContext. Note that this solution addresses the problem of circular references, and also fixes a hole in how the Manager knows about the InjectionPoint.