 <h3>The <code>BeanManager</code> object</h3>
 
 <p>Portable extensions sometimes interact directly with the container 
 via programmatic API call. The interface 
 <a href="BeanManager.html" title="interface in jakarta.enterprise.inject.spi"><code>BeanManager</code></a> provides operations 
 for obtaining contextual references for beans, along with many other 
 operations of use to portable extensions.</p>
 
 <h3>Container lifecycle events</h3>
 
 <p>During the application initialization process, the contai