JSF 2 ApplicationScoped Beans initialized more than once

Question

Environment:
Mojarra JSF Implementation 2.0.2-FCS
Facelets 1.1.15
EL Impl v2.2
Tomcat 6
I am working on a JSF 2 project that has multiple application scoped beans (mostly eager loaded) which connect to remote resources (on one or more EE containers) which may or may not be available at the time that the context is initialized. The web container running this application may have more than one application on it and therefore cannot block while initializing. In order to achieve the desired result I have written the eager application scoped managed beans to load asynchronously using an internal Thread and to check the "available" status of the other local managed beans on which they depend. For example I have a managed bean that is responsible for loading and caching a set of location related information from a remote EJB service and a managed bean that requires that location information to process information it receives from a separate EJB service (the latter injects the former and waits until the former indicates it is "available" before it proceeds with it's own initialization and is itself marked as "available").
This works in principal and seems a relatively elegant solution to my asynchronous resources and dependency situation. I am able to use @ManagedProperty to inject the managed beans in their dependency chain and the @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations to ensure they begin initialization once the resources are injected and that they clean up after themselves. The problem I am having is that multiple instances of at least one of my application scoped beans is being constructed by the container. This would in theory be alright since my code does clean up after itself, however the beans that are being destroyed have (at least sometimes) already been injected into other application scoped managed beans.
This would appear to be a bug to me, however before I post it as such I thought I would enquire if anyone knew what was happening or how to get around it. I suspect that this is related to the following issue:
[http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6223295|http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6223295]
In pre JSF 2 implementations I have put most of what I would consider application scoped Objects into singletons that get constructed during the ServletContext initialization using a ServletContextListener. This seems somewhat hackish to me and I would prefer to be able to use injection to manage dependencies between my managed beans. I would be tempted to try Weld (JSR-299) if I believed that would solve the issue, however I would prefer to use the built-in dependency injection that is supported by the container natively if possible.
Should I post this as a bug? Are there ways around this behavior (e.g. a way to force application scoped bean to be loaded synchronously)? Suggestions?
Thanks,
--Zack                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Answer 1

If anyone else runs into this, I have created a bug for JavaServer Faces, which includes a fix to the RI to address the problem (you will need to download the source and recompile with a one-line change):
[https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1705]
Cheers,
--Zack