ISSUE 58: Graphical representation of wires in included composites

[Scott Vorthmann <scottv@tibco.com>]

http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/ASSEMBLY-58

On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Michael Rowley wrote:

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> RAISER: Michael Rowley
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> TARGET: SCA Assembly Specification (no specific section)
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> DESCRIPTION:
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> SCA currently has no way of representing wires within a composite  
> that is intended to be included into a larger composite, if the  
> target of the wire is outside of the included composite.
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> A very common variant of this scenario is that the composite is a  
> deployment composite, which will be “included” into the logical  
> domain composite.  Its references have targets that refer to already  
> deployed components.
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> In viewing such a deployment composite, there should be some  
> representation for the components that have references that are  
> already wired, to distinguish them from references that have not yet  
> been wired.  Preferably, it should also represent the target of that  
> wire.
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> PROPOSAL:
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> Nothing specific, although some kind of dotted or ghosted  
> representation for the components that are expected to be in the  
> domain composite (or any including composite) may be one way to  
> handle it.
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