Hi, Thanks for the clarification.
Am Montag, den 02.06.2008, 21:05 -0400 schrieb BJ Hargrave: > No DS imlementation can require a factory component to have a service > element. > > A factory component cannot be an immediate component since an instance > of the component cannot be created until a call is made to the > factory. From 112.2.2: > > "A component is an immediate component if it is not a factory compo- > nent ..." > > I think the confusion may lay in the description of the immediate > attribute in 112.4.3: > > "immediate - Controls whether component configurations must be > immediately activated after becoming satisfied or whether activation > should be delayed. The default value is false if the service element > is > specified and true otherwise. If this attribute is specified, its > value must > be true unless the service element is also specified." > > which does not take into account factory components. > > A better description would be: > > "immediate - Controls whether component configurations must be > immediately activated after becoming satisfied or whether activation > should be delayed. The default value is false if the factory attribute > or if the service element is > specified and true otherwise. If this attribute is specified, its > value must be false if the factory attribute is also specified or > must > be true unless the service element is also specified." > > I was in fact tricked into assuming a default (and required) value for component factories, which is not in this sense. In this case the Apache Felix implementation has a bug (which I am going to fix) and the specification should be clarified which I am going to bug. Regards Felix _______________________________________________ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
