I have started investigating TUSCANY-1045. Based on what the spec is saying, we should start by calculating the component type information from introspection and then looking into sidefile and merge the info from both in a compatible way :
"The component type is calculated in two steps where the second step adds to the information found in the first step. Step one is introspecting the implementation (if possible), including the inspection of implementation annotations (if available). Step two covers the cases where introspection of the implementation is not possible or where it does not provide complete information and it involves looking for an SCA component type file. Component type information found in the component type file must be compatible with the equivalent information found from inspection of the implementation. The component type file can specify partial information, with the remainder being derived from the implementation. " The issue is that our code, inside JavaComponentTypeLoader is doing these two paths in a exclusive way. I'm planning to work on this, but I want some guidance on how to merge information from a componentType from two different sources. I have couple questions : - Do we already have some similar code available ? - Any special care while merging the info from the two sources (introspection and sideFile) ? - How to identify if the info from both sources are compatible ? -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende
