1. CDI provides API to listen/observe for various stages of bean discovery and deployment, during which we can add additional types to be registered as managed CDI beans/interceptors/etc. however, there is no way to do the same (i.e.) register new types as CDI managed beans/interceptors/etc once the application is deployed (i.e. during runtime).

it would be very useful if the spec is enhanced to also provide a runtime API to register new types as Beans or Interceptors.

this is what we do currently:

public void beforeBeanDiscovery(@Observes BeforeBeanDiscovery event, BeanManager beanManager) { 
        this.bm=beanManager;
        Set<Class<?>> klasses=get classes from from some non-jee-classpath
        AnnotatedType<?> annotatedType;
        for(Class<?> klass : klasses ) {
            annotatedType = bm.createAnnotatedType(klass);
            event.addAnnotatedType(annotatedType,klass.getName());
        }
    }

something like the following will be of great use:

@Inject BeanManager bm;
AnnotatedType<?> annotatedType = bm.createAnnotatedType(klass);
 bm.addAnnotatedType(annotatedType,klass.getName());

this simple API will help discover beans after deployment or from non-jee classpaths.