Hi, Thanks again for the reply. I think we are nearly reaching a point of agreement on this; however I am still unsure of how some of the intricacies will work.
I can see how the samples are working, as Tuscany has automatic access to the files required as they are included within the same jars, but assume I have a DAO component which implements a service HibernateProductDAO which provides a Hibernate specific implementation of the ProductDAO interface. If our full application is deployed in a component oriented fashion, then ideally I would like to be able to say... ok this single component needs a bug fix. Fix the bug and repackage this single component and redeploy. So say HibernateProductDAO_1.5.jar is sitting with component contained within (and a composite mapping?) and I would like to get this into my application. Would it be as simple as dropping it within the shared lib/classpath of the webcontainer and will Tuscany be able to find it? Thanks again Chris