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package com.sun.faces.util.cdi11;

import javax.enterprise.inject.spi.Bean;
import javax.enterprise.inject.spi.BeanManager;

/*
 * This interface will only ever be loaded and accessed in CDI 1.1 or greater
 * runtimes.
 * 
 */

public interface CDIUtil {
    
    /*
     * Allow for the programmatic instantiation of a CDI bean "on demand", 
     * so to speak.  This is in contrast to the usual way of CDI beans, 
     * where instantiation happens lazily.
     * 
     * Two clients of this interface are the CDI extensions for ViewScoped
     * and FlowScoped so that they may fire the Initialized and Destroyed
     * events as necessary.
     * 
     */
    Bean createHelperBean(BeanManager beanManager, Class beanClass);
    
}