Sounds fine to me.

At 05:39 PM 6/6/2002 +0200, you wrote:

>Seems to me that ResourceAccessor should be renamed to ResourceProvider.
>
>Steve.
>
>
>Peter Donald wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have just completed the first draft of the MetaData and MetaInfo 
>>objects for container writers. I would appreciate if all you container 
>>writers (particularly Berin, Leo and Stephen) would look at the classes in
>>
>>org.apache.excalibur.containerkit.metadata
>>org.apache.excalibur.containerkit.metainfo
>>
>>The metainfo classes are meta information about the component type. 
>>Basically it contains information such as
>>* what services does component support
>>* what services does component require to operate
>>* generic information (like classname of component and version of component)
>>
>>The metadata contains basic information about a "assembled" component. 
>>Basically it is the mapping of component dependencies. ie Component A 
>>provides service P to Component B
>>
>>The metainfo should be sufficient to model all our containers. When a 
>>container requires specific capabilities (ie Merlins constraints or 
>>Fortresses lifestyles) it can use "attributes". Attributes are basically 
>>opaque strings that describe container specific things (See javadocs of 
>>the classes). The metainfo classes should not need to be subclassed.
>>
>>In the future metainfo will probably include things like;
>>* configuration/parameters schema (maybe XML Schema?)
>>* required context values (Basically like resource-ref from J2EE world)
>>
>>The metadata package will probably need to be subclassed to provide 
>>container specific information but it is a start.
>>
>>So what do you think? Is there anything else that it needs to support for 
>>it to be useful in all containers?
>>
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