On May 30, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Jeremy Boynes wrote:
Do we support dependencies on GBeans in sibling configurations?
We support references to GBeans in siblings configurations and that results in a dependency.
The problem with declaring a reference is that the class of the target GBean may not be available, and that there may not be a setted/ctr-arg for the value.
As the subject implies, in that case I would suppose you would want a pure dependency without a reference. Alternatively, you could use a common reference interface in the parent class loader.
Do we support dependencies without a reference?
No
Would a reference type of java.lang.Object work?
Yes
Will it work without a setter/ctr-arg?
No
Of academic interest for now, the GBeans where I thought I might need this are in a parent/child config relationship.
We can add this, but before I tackle this, what is the use case; I don't want to add features without a good use case.
-dain
