Hi,

First, thanks for the help.  I am not so comfortable with having inside an
intent or a policyset, a pointer to an assembly model artifact.  I somehow
see a one way dependency that goes from the assembly model to the policy
model i.e. an assembly model artifact must know the policies attached to it,
but a policy (intent or policyset) doesn't quite need to know where it is
attached.  The fact that a policy intent 'constrains' or a policyset
'appliesTo'  a particular 'class' of assembly model artifacts is a different
thing.

I am trying another work around for this.  Will let you folks know of it
once I am sure it works for me locally and get your views.

Thanks

- Venkat

On Dec 6, 2007 2:36 PM, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Dec 5, 2007 11:04 PM, Raymond Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Would it help if the Intent/PolicySet has a pointer to the its
> attachpoint
> > (i.e., where the intent/policy is declared)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Raymond
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Venkata Krishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:40 AM
> > Subject: Implementation Policies
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > To set the context its about specification of policies on
> implementation
> > > elements in a composite.  Since we have implementation model instances
> > > being  reused we have trouble with capturing what policies were set on
> > an
> > > implementation under a specific Component.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have this going in the trunk but with a bit of a hack in
> > > ComponentImpl.getImplementation.  Now am looking at cleaning that a
> bit
> > > and
> > > exploring options.
> > >
> > > One of the alternatives suggested earlier is to have the
> implementation
> > > policies stored in the component itself.  But the problem is Component
> > > themselves can have policies specified over them which will have be
> > > inherited by the service, implementation and reference child elements
> > > within.  One way of getting around this is to add up the component's
> > > policies to the services and references child elements right at the
> time
> > > of
> > > reading from the scdl.  Then when the implementation child element is
> > > loaded
> > > we read its policies and store it into the component.  This seems a
> good
> > > way
> > > out but bites during the build phase as follows :-
> > >
> > > - One of the things we do in the build phase is validating if
> policysets
> > > specified on an implementation element i.e. checking to see if a
> > specified
> > > policyset does apply to the implementation type in question.  The
> specs
> > > says
> > > that its ok if this validation fails for policysets that have been
> > > inherited
> > > (say from the composite or the component), but if this validation
> fails
> > > for
> > > a policyset directly specified for the element then its an error in
> > > defining
> > > the composite and it must be flagged.
> > >
> > > *
> > >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 551 When computing the policySets that apply to a particular element,
> > the
> > > @appliesTo attribute
> > > 552 of each relevant policySet is checked against the element. If the
> > > policySet is attached
> > > 553 directly to the element and does not apply to that element an
> error
> > is
> > > raised. If a policySet
> > > 554 that is attached to an ancestor element does not apply to the
> > element
> > > in
> > > question, it is simply
> > > 555 discarded.
> > >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > *
> > >
> > > So if we are going to store in the component model, the policysets
> > > specified
> > > on its implementation then during validation its not possible to
> figure
> > > out
> > > if the policyset came thro inheriting the component's policyset or
> from
> > > direct definition.
> > >
> > > Is there a way out of this ?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > - Venkat
> > >
> >
> >
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> > Or have a pointer from each attachpoint to their policy and also a
> pointer
> from the component which aggregates them. A similar thing happens in
> contributions and the domain where composites are both contributed
> composites and deployable composite.
>
> Simon
>

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