ISSUE 5: component type allows to specify wire targets on references

[Scott Vorthmann <scottv@tibco.com>]

Re: my action item 2008-10-30-5, to create a proposal for a potential  
solution for issue 5

I've been trying to reconstruct our discussion from the F2F, but I  
need a little help from others present.  (I cannot find my notes, and  
they were pretty minimal in any case.)

According to my recollection, Mike likes wire targets on references in  
a componentType to support what I'll call the "PHP use-case": a very  
simple deployment mechanism of dropping files in a folder.  In that  
scenario, the developer and deployer are likely to be the same user,  
so the developer may reasonably know what services the deployer has  
deployed.

I don't dispute the use-case, but I suggested (IIRC) that the simple  
deployment mechanism would necessarily consist of generating some  
deployment artifacts from the annotated PHP script dropped in the  
folder, and those generated artifacts need not be limited to a  
ComponentType; a deployment Composite could just as easily be  
generated, and that could easily represent the wire that the deployer  
included via annotation.  Put another way, PHP script annotations need  
not be restricted to producing a ComponentType, and could, in fact,  
produce a default deployment Composite.

This is where my memory runs out, and I'd like to ask Mike to remind  
me what his counterpoint was... I've lost it.

I suggest that we carry this discussion on via email, rather than  
wasting time on the call.

Scott