[2.x] What information should be serialized with EndpointReference/Endpoint and how to resolve them on the consumer side?

[Raymond Feng]

Hi,

I have been trying to find out what information should be serialized with an 
Endpoint or EndpointReference and how they can be resolved (or rebuilt) by 
the consuming component. The current code serializes an EP or EPR as 
composite/component/reference|service/binding. I have put together a wiki 
page at [1] to illustrate the use cases and explain how an EP/EPR should be 
exchanged. Let's use it to discuss and fix the issues we have run into.

[1] 
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUSCANYxDOCx2x/Serialization+Deserialization+of+Endpoints+and+EndpointReferences

Thanks,
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Raymond Feng
Apache Tuscany PMC Member: http://tuscany.apache.org
Co-author of Tuscany In Action (A book on Tuscany SCA): 
http://tuscanyinaction.com/