I recently read Dan's blog entry on the SCA assembly model: http://netzooid.com/blog/2007/07/22/sca-assembly-vs-spring-cxf/
That and some other discussions I've had made me think about maybe offering the SCA assembly model to configure Synapse. So it seems to me that you can draw a direct correlation between: Synapse Proxy and SCA Service Synapse Endpoint and SCA reference Synapse Mediator - a specific type of SCA Component Synapse Property - SCA Property If we were to make the XMLConfigurationBuilder pluggable then we could just use this as an alternative configuration language. We did talk about this in the beginning of Synapse [we discussed having a LEX/YACC style config language - which I would still LOVE if someone wants to do that - it would make a great Computer Science project] Anyway back to SCA, it seems to me that this would be a pretty nice alternative config model, using an independent third party language. I'm guessing that there is plenty of Tuscany code could help us implement this. Maybe we might do it jointly? So I'm imagining the existing runtime being *exactly* the same as today, but being able to use a subset of the SCA Assembly model to configure it. Maybe some of the SCA wizards on tusc-dev can jump in and let me know if this is feasible? Paul PS If someone is looking at http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/scaproblem and wondering where this is coming from I offer a few thoughts. Firstly, I'm always open to being proved wrong! Secondly, this would not be adding any layers of indirection... I'm mapping directly from SCA concepts into the Synapse runtime with this idea. Finally, I see nothing wrong with holding several inconsistent viewpoints at the same time :) -- Paul Fremantle Co-Founder and VP of Technical Sales, WSO2 OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair blog: http://pzf.fremantle.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
