One thing that we could do, purely in the interest of simplifying the spec is to * eliminate the notion of disposal methods, and * require that the web bean manager raise an event whenever it created or destroys any web bean. Then any web bean could react to creation or destruction of an object using an observer method: void prepareFoo(@Observes @Created @SomeBinding Foo foo) { .... } void disposeFoo(@Observes @Destroyed @SomeBinding Foo foo) { .... } This is not exactly semantically identical to a disposal method, since disposal methods have the special quality that there is at most one disposal method per producer method, whereas according to this proposal, the number of observers of one of these events is unlimited (which is potentially more powerful and more error-prone). It's just an idea - something we could do that would make the spec simpler. I don't think it's necessarily an improvement. -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin http://hibernate.org http://seamframework.org