Stephen wrote:
> I hate this subject because I keep changing my mind!

Isn't that a good thing?


<snip reason="agree" />

> If you make the assumption that any entry *must* fall into one of the
> following three categories, then I think its possible:
>
>   1. a standard context entry
>   2. a registered service type
>   3. a custom context type (i.e. declared in meta-data)
>
> Umm, interesting thing is that this would only require one small
> addition to the meta-info model, namely the addition of the version
> attribute on a context entry.  Legacy A4 support could be provided by
> provided my mapping the generic context as the provider to both
> serviceable and contextualizable.

>From my perspective (being, or trying to be, mainly a component author) it
is fairly irrelevant whether it is in the Contextualizable or Serviceable
contract, as long as;

1. It is a single lookup.
2. If the container doesn't provide it by default, I can provide an
implementation.

And your suggestions above seems to fulfill this very well, the rest is
implementation details ;o).


Cheers
Niclas





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