pseudo-scopes.</p>
 
 <h3>Contextual and injected reference validity</h3>
 
 <p>A reference to a bean obtained from the container via <a href="../../../jakarta/enterprise/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 instance of the bean. A contextual 
 reference for a bean are valid only for a certain period of time. The 
 application should not in