Scope of producer methods

By default, producer methods run in the @Dependent scope; this means that each time an instance is requested to be injected within any context, a new instance of the bean will be created. However, you can customize this, by annotating your producer method with a scope annotation, as in the following example:

@SessionScoped 
public class Preferences implements Serializable { 
    ... 
    @Produces 
    @Preferred 
    @RequestScoped 
    public PaymentStrategy getPaymentStrategy() { ... } 
} 

In this example, only one instance of the PaymentStrategy bean will be instantiated per user request.