On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:39 PM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Raymond Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> SCADomain APIs were introduced in Tuscany before we come up the Node APIs
>> which are more consistent with the Domain concepts in the SCA spec. Even
>> though we should now use the Node APIs, there are still quite a few samples
>> and testcases using the SCADomain API as a legacy. To better align the
>> behaviors of two APIs before we can finally remove the SCADomain, I'm
>> starting the port the DefaultSCADomain implementation to use node2-impl. The
>> idea is to delegate the SCADomain APIs to Node2Impl.
>>
>> I run into two issues here:
>>
>> 1) Node2Impl assumes the deployable composite has been fully resolved by
>> the SCA Domain. For example, the binding URIs and policies. In the
>> SCADomain, CompositeDocumentProcessor tries to transform the original
>> composite by applying the policySets first and then load it into the
>> Composite model using CompositeProcessor.
>>
>> I'll work around this issue in the Node2Impl (use
>> CompositeDocumentProcessor to load the composite file and open a JIRA to fix
>> it later when we have a good story to resolve the policy applications in the
>> SCA domain first).
>>
>> 2) SCADomain APIs can take more than one deployable composites which Node
>> APIs expect only one deployable composite.
>>
>> We'll only honor the first composite from SCADomain.newInstance. For a few
>> testcases using more than one composites, we should create a composite that
>> includes other composites and pass it the SCADomain API.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Raymond
>
> Is there a good reason we need to do this? If not then i don't think we
> should.
>
> Backward compatibility is really important, this is an API we've been using
> in all the samples and telling users to use since the 0.90 release so we
> need a _really_ good reason to break it as is being done in (2), and even
> for (1) i think its an unnecessary risk as there will be differences in the
> impl which will likely break things for users in some scenarios.
>
> To be safe wouldn't it be better to just deprecate the SCADomain class and
> change all our samples and tests to use the new Node2 APIs? If we don't
> think the Node2 APIs are as easy to use as the SCADomain we should fix that.
> I know thats a little more work but i'll help by volunteering to make all
> the test and sample changes.
>
>    ...ant
>
>
>


I thought the changes from Raymond were making SCADomain to internally
use Node apis, and that should maintain compatibility. Looking at
changes in revision #r686391 I didn't see any sample changes.

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Luciano Resende
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