Custom scopes

In addition to providing several prebuilt scopes, CDI allows us to define our own custom scopes. This functionality is primarily meant for developers building frameworks on top of CDI, not for application developers. Nevertheless, NetBeans provides a wizard for us to create our own CDI custom scopes.

To create a new CDI custom scope, we need to go to File | New File, select the Contexts and Dependency Injection category, and select the Scope Type file type.

Then, we need to enter a package and a name for our custom scope.

After clicking on Finish, our new custom scope is created, as shown in the following code:

package com.ensode.cdiintro.scopes;

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.FIELD;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
import java.lang.annotation.Inherited;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;...