Does this behavior mean that an EBA can't package a namespace handler that one 
of its other bundles uses?  Is this prohibited or even a bad idea for other 
reasons?

thanks
david jencks

On Sep 27, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Alasdair Nottingham wrote:

> No, it is so the resolver can resolve dangling service references, installing 
> the bundles would be bad because it would violate the contract of the Aries 
> application installer which allows you to resolve without installing the 
> application. Also when we are installing in an isolated way we need to know 
> the resolution prior to installation, so we would need to install, uninstall 
> then reinstall. 
> 
> Your namespace handler must cope, what is the problem?
> 
> Alasdair
> 
> On 27 Sep 2010, at 19:34, Joe Bohn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Can you be more specific on the need for the EBA installer to parse the 
>> blueprint xml?   Is it to validate that services exported by the EBA are 
>> actually defined in some bundle?
>> 
>> If that is the case, then would it be possible to install the bundle(s) 
>> first and validate exported services against those registered by the various 
>> bundles?
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/27/10 2:16 PM, Alasdair Nottingham wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I think the simple answer is probably yes. I think it is called once to 
>>> know how to resolve the application, and the second time because we have 
>>> installed the framework.
>>> 
>>> Alasdair
>>> 
>>> On 27 Sep 2010, at 19:02, Joe Bohn<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> When processing an application (EBA) we parse all of the blueprint.xml 
>>>> (including custom namespaces) as part of the application processing for 
>>>> all bundles within the EBA.  The net result is that we do all of this 
>>>> parsing twice because we also must parse and processes the information in 
>>>> the BlueprintContainer.
>>>> 
>>>> Why is it necessary to parse the blueprint.xml during EBA installation in 
>>>> the application module?
>>>> 
>>>> I stumbled on this because I was making some modifications to a custom 
>>>> namespace handler and noticed that it was being invoked twice for the same 
>>>> elements.  It seems that this is not desirable.  Should all namespace 
>>>> handlers be coded in such a way that they can be invoked multiple times 
>>>> for the exact same elements?
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Joe
>>> 

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