NEW ISSUE: Infoset for policySet/@appliesTo

["Michael Rowley" <mrowley@bea.com>]

 

RAISER: Michael Rowley

 

TARGET: Policy Framework Specification section 3.3 Policy Sets

 

DESCRIPTION: In the existing policy framework specification, the @appliesTo attribute is described as being executed against the composite file as it was written.  However, the composite contains bindings, targets and policies that may be overridden by the component that uses that composite (with implementation.composite).  In this case, the writer of the policySet usually wants the @appliesTo expression to be evaluated against the effective description of the components/bindings/etc.

 

PROPOSAL:

 

@appliesTo should be applied to a pre-processed infoset.  The processing step should modify the composite file by applying any overrides, reference targets or property values that are specified by the component that uses the composite.