de>&#064;Dependent</code></a> and
 <a href="../../inject/Singleton.html" title="annotation interface in jakarta.inject"><code>&#064;Singleton</code></a> pseudo-scopes.
 </p>

 <h2>Contextual and injected reference validity</h2>

 <p>
 A reference to a bean obtained from the container via <a href="../inject/Instance.html" title="interface in jakarta.enterprise.inject">programmatic lookup</a> is called a
 contextual reference. A contextual reference for a bean with a normal
 scope refers to the current instan