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package javax.enterprise.context.spi;

/**
 * Allows registration of an incompletely initialized contextual instance with
 * the container. The contextual instance is considered incompletely initialized
 * until the create() method returns the instance.
 * 
 * @author Pete Muir
 *
 */
public interface CreationalContext<T>
{
 
   /**
    * Push an incomplete instance to the container
    * 
    * @param incompleteInstance
    */
   public void push(T incompleteInstance);
   
   public void release();
   
}