Bean instance of a shorter scope injected in a bean instance of a larger scope in CDI - how does it work?

Question

Consider the following request-scoped CDI bean:

@RequestScoped
public class RequestScopedBean {
    // ...
}

Now, I inject it in a applicat

Answer 1

In CDI each injected object is actually a proxy. So in that case, the proxy probably holds a reference to the RequestContext and on each method invocation gets the correct bean instance.