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reference/en-US/producermethods.xml

@@ -92,6 +92,16 @@ public class Preferences implements Serializable {
             same producer method. Thus, there could be multiple instances of the <literal>PaymentStrategy</literal>
             object for each user session.
          </para>
+
+         <note>
+            <para>
+               The producer method does <emphasis>not</emphasis> inherit the scope of the bean that declares the 
+               method. There are two different beans here: the producer method, and the bean which declares it. The 
+               scope of the producer method determines how often the method will be called, and the lifecycle of the 
+               objects returned by the method. The scope of the bean that declares the producer method determines the
+               lifecycle of the object upon which the producer method is invoked.
+            </para>
+         </note>
 
          <para>
             To change this behavior, we can add a <literal>@SessionScoped</literal> annotation to the method.