Getting reference to a system component in iTest

I have a contributionService system component https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/tuscany/branches/sca-java-integration/sca/kernel/core/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/core/services/deployment/ContributionServiceImpl.java or

Re: Getting reference to a system component in iTest

What you are seeing is exactly the right behaviour (well, depending on where the NPE is coming from, but generally the right behaviour). We don't want application code accessing system components as that leads to all sorts of nasty issues (like major security holes). So my first question