I think we need to say explicitly in the spec what contexts are available during @Dispose and @PreDestroy. At minimum: * the @Dependent scope is active * the application context is active unless the bean being destroyed has scope @ApplicationScoped I think we should also require that: * the session context is active when @ConversationScoped or @RequestScoped beans are being destroyed * the conversation context is active when @RequestScoped beans are being destroyed -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin http://hibernate.org http://seamframework.org