JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform

Pseudo scopes

Pseudo scopes result in beans that do not have a client proxy created by Weld, but instead a new instance is created each time and the client holds a direct reference to it. @Dependent is a scope annotation that is a pseudo scope type, and @Dependent is also the default scope for any beans that do not explicitly declare a scope.

Beans with a scope of @Dependent are never shared; it is a dependent object of whichever object it was injected into. This means that the @Dependent bean is created at the point when the object it belongs to is created, and is destroyed when the object it belongs to is destroyed.

Tip

Accessing a @Dependent bean by its EL name will cause a new instance of that bean to be created every time the expression is ...