At the same time make them decoratable as well.

I have implemented this. I have committed it.

I do not believe the current commit completely solve all of the problems. There are two things that I believe should work with dependent scoped beans.

1) public fields in the bean should work as expected. If we shield a bean with a proxy in the middle, then public field operations occur on the proxy, but the actual method calls flow through into the actual bean instance. This leads to strange behavior. I'll attach a testcase I wrote while I was working on this.

2) To my knowledge dependent scoped beans don't require a default constructor. 3.1.3 allows for constructors annotated with @Inject, and I believe only 5.4.1 restricts this further. The committed change to LifecycleBean looks like the same problem I ran into in my first couple attempts.

I'm still working on this area myself, just wanted to share some of my thoughts.

I have re-opened this issue. I have tried your concern in RI and it does not work either. I am re-opening this issue because of tracking.

For tracking

moved to 1.0.0-GA

This is still not working.
Comment in the section

Assert.assertTrue(DependentInterceptor.refCount == 1);

in DependentInterceptorTest#testLifecycle() to see what I mean.

will get resolved while fixing OWB-344

After moving the Interceptor + Decorator creation to the InjectionTarget this finally works!

shipped in OWB-1.2.0