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package javax.enterprise.context;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.FIELD;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.Inherited;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import javax.enterprise.context.spi.Contextual;
import javax.inject.Scope;
/**
* Specifies that a bean belongs to the dependent pseudo-scope.
*
* Beans declared with scope @Dependent behave differently
* to beans with other built-in scope types. When a bean is declared
* to have scope @Dependent:
*
*
* - No injected instance of the bean is ever shared between
* multiple injection points.
* - Any instance of the bean injected into an object that is being
* created by the container is bound to the lifecycle of the newly
* created object.
* - When a Unified EL expression in a JSF or JSP page that refers
* to the bean by its EL name is evaluated, at most one instance of
* the bean is instantiated. This instance exists to service just a
* single evaluation of the EL expression. It is reused if the bean
* EL name appears multiple times in the EL expression, but is never
* reused when the EL expression is evaluated again, or when another
* EL expression is evaluated.
* - Any instance of the bean that receives a producer method,
* producer field, disposer method or observer method invocation
* exists to service that invocation only.
* - Any instance of the bean injected into method parameters of a
* disposer method or observer method exists to service the method
* invocation only.
*
*
* Every invocation of the
* {@link javax.enterprise.context.spi.Context#get(Contextual, CreationalContext)}
* operation of the context object for the @Dependent scope
* returns a new instance of the given bean.
*
* Every invocation of the
* {@link javax.enterprise.context.spi.Context#get(Contextual)}
* operation of the context object for the @Dependent scope
* returns a null value.
*
* The @Dependent scope is always active.
*
* Many instances of beans with scope @Dependent belong
* to some other bean or Java EE component class instance and are
* called dependent objects.
*
*
* - Instances of decorators and interceptors are dependent
* objects of the bean instance they decorate.
* - An instance of a bean with scope @Dependent injected
* into a field, bean constructor or initializer method is a dependent
* object of the bean or Java EE component class instance into
* which it was injected.
* - An instance of a bean with scope @Dependent injected
* into a producer method is a dependent object of the producer method
* bean instance that is being produced.
* - An instance of a bean with scope @Dependent obtained by
* direct invocation of an {@link javax.enterprise.inject.Instance} is
* a dependent object of the instance of
* {@link javax.enterprise.inject.Instance}.
*
*
* When the container destroys an instance of a bean or of any Java
* EE component class supporting injection, the container destroys all
* its dependent objects, after the @PreDestroy callback completes
* and after the servlet destroy() method is called.
*
* @author Gavin King
* @author Pete Muir
*/
@Target( { METHOD, TYPE, FIELD })
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Scope
@Inherited
public @interface Dependent
{
}