Weld @Inject ApplicationScope bean creates new instance in every inject point

Question

I'm trying to understand CDI using Weld. Got the next structure:

@ApplicationScoped
public class MainFacade {

    @Inject
    private FooFacade fooFacade;

    private static int ins=0;

    public MainFacade() {
        super();
        ins++;
        System.out.println("MainFacade instance = "+ins);
    }

    public FooFacade getFooFacade() {
        return fooFacade;
    }
}

Where FooFacade is also @ApplicationScope.

When app is starting I've get a MainFacade instance = 1. When I inject it in other class (GWT RPC servlet) and call mainFacade.getFooFacade() then new instance of MainFacade are created along with a new instance of fooFacade.

Thought that Weld would return me the same instance of application scope bean anywhere I inject it. What I'm doing wrong?

How are you determining that it's a new instance? It could be that it's a different proxy injected. — rdcrng, Mar 29 '13 at 13:39

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '13 at 09:21

I don't think this test will work well to verify that an application scoped bean is really a "singleton".

If you inject this bean into other beans, Weld will create a proxy which will handle the delegation of all invocations to the correct instance. This is important especially if you inject request scoped bean into session scoped beans for example.

The proxy will basically extend MainFacade which is required because otherwise the proxy cannot be injected into the fields where the injection is happening. When creating an instance of the proxy, the default constructor of you bean will be executed. As Weld will create many proxies, you are seeing multiple logs to the console. You could verify this by adding something like this to your constructor:

System.out.println("Type: "+this.getClass().getName());

Thank you, I found this by myself earlier, but your post covers all the aspects. — Minolan, Apr 02 '13 at 09:44

Dmytro Sokolyuk · Answer 2 · 2013-10-01T17:40:55.310

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When you use @ApplicationScoped Weld creates a proxy that calls constructor too, specification here.

edited Oct 01 '13 at 17:40

answered Sep 24 '13 at 23:00

Dmytro Sokolyuk

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I'm having trouble parsing this answer. Can you please rewrite it? – Translunar Sep 24 '13 at 23:19

Weld @Inject ApplicationScope bean creates new instance in every inject point

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