On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Nick May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about when references are bound...
>
> I have a composite which consists of four components, one ReplicaManager
> and three Replicas. The manager promotes a single service. The replicas are
> bound to the manager with a single reference. eg.
>
> <reference name="children" multiplicity="1..*" target="Replica1 Replica2
> Replica3"/>
>
> On the first call to the service the manager's 'children' property is
> successfully populated with an array of Replicas. However, it appears that
> this property is repopulated on every call to the manager's service.
>
> Is the manager re-initialised on every call, or are the references rebound?
> Is there a way to specify that a reference is bound on initialisation only?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick May
>
>
Try adding the annotation @Scope("COMPOSITE") to ReplicaManager. By default
the scope is "STATELESS" which means a new instance is created and
initialized for each request. For more info about @Scope see section 1.2.4
of the SCA Java Annotations and APIs spec -
http://www.osoa.org/display/Main/Service+Component+Architecture+Specifications
...ant
