geronimo-jcdi_2.0_spec/src/main/java/javax/enterprise/context/NormalScope.java

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package javax.enterprise.context;

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;

import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

/**
 * <p>Defines CDI scopes which have a well-defined lifecycle. Examples for such scopes
 * are {@link javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped}, {@link javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped}
 * and {@link javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped}.</p>
 * <p>Beans of such a scope will get a normalscoping proxy (Contextual Reference)
 * for every injection.</p>
 *
 * <p>If a NormalScope is {@code passivating} then all it's Contextual Instances need
 * to implement {@code java.io.Serializable}.</p>
 * @version $Rev$ $Date$
 *
 */
@Target(ANNOTATION_TYPE)
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Documented
public @interface NormalScope
{
    /**Defines passivation semantic*/
    boolean passivating() default false;
}