This section of the spec suggests that the javax.webbeans.Context interface needs a destroy() method also: 9.1.2. Context destruction At certain points in the execution of the program, the context associated with the current thread is destroyed. When a context is destroyed, the Context implementation must destroy all component instances associated with the current context by passing each instance to the destroy() method of the Component object representing the component. A destroyed instance must not subsequently be returned by the get() method.