On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Scott Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> So from the client-side I have a reference configured with a bidirectional
> interface (forward/callback pair).  So the runtime should know to which
> client component direct the callback from this config (I'm just talking
> about which component not which component instance).    If that resolves to
> another Java impl in the domain, that impl has an @Callback-annotated
> field/setter, which seems to fulfill the purpose you described.
>
> So it seems there must be some other reason.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Scott Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed an annoyance in the scenario that we are developing in a
>>> top-down style, starting with two WSDL interfaces, which we wish to use as a
>>> forward/callback pair.
>>>
>>> Since this is top-down, we generate Java interfaces from each WSDL using
>>> something like wsimport.   The annoyance is that I have to go and add an
>>> @Callback(MyCallbackIntf.class) to the generated forward interface, to link
>>> the two interfaces together.
>>>
>>> In a quick test it seemed that if I didn't do that I had problems (maybe
>>> I should try another test, but wanted to throw this out for discussion
>>> first...)
>>>
>>> Strikes me as ugly to have to add an SCA intf to generated code....
>>>
>>> Now, I realize the OSOA Java annotations/apis implies that you need to do
>>> this.  But I was wondering, if the component configures an <interface.wsdl
>>> ... interface=".." callbackInterface".."> then shouldn't that be enough to
>>> link the two?
>>>
>>> Or is there some need for the runtime to be able to look at the forward
>>> intf Class object and determine the callback intf Class that I'm not seeing,
>>> (perhaps for some particular API I'm not paying attention to)?
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Scott
>>>
>>
>> Hi Scott
>>
>> I haven't looked at the details of the code on this but I imagine the
>> runtime needs some help in deciding where to inject the callback reference,
>> assuming that injection is required. If it only had a WSDL document as a
>> guide to the type of the callback reference for a given service interface
>> then it wouldn't necessarily be able to map from the WSDL to the Java type.
>> For example, in the case where you have mapped from WSDL to Java manually.
>>
>> Sound plausible?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>
>
But can it deduce the java type of the callback interface? You're right I
was using the implementation.java case to justify why this is important.

Simon

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