Re: [sca-assembly] ASSEMBLY-136: Promoting a reference with multiplicity 1..nand targetsshould default to 0..n - Updated Proposal

[David Booz <booz@us.ibm.com>]

These updates did the trick.

I was hoping you'd get an inspiration and come up with a better name for nonOverrideable attribute. I, recognizing that I'm bad at naming things, have no suggestions for you, just disdain for current name.

Dave Booz
STSM, BPM and SCA Architecture
Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC and SCA-J TC
"Distributed objects first, then world hunger"
Poughkeepsie, NY (845)-435-6093 or 8-295-6093
e-mail:booz@us.ibm.com

Mike Edwards ---07/30/2009 04:31:18 AM---Folks, Sorry, I was trying to be too clever by half.

From:	Mike Edwards <mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com>
To:	"OASIS Assembly" <sca-assembly@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:	07/30/2009 04:31 AM
Subject:	Re: [sca-assembly] ASSEMBLY-136: Promoting a reference with multiplicity 1..n and targetsshould default to 0..n - Updated Proposal

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Folks, 

Sorry, I was trying to be too clever by half. 

Updated version of the proposal is here: 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-assembly/download.php/33598/sca-assembly-1.1-spec-cd03-Rev2%2BIssue136v2.pdf 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-assembly/download.php/33597/sca-assembly-1.1-spec-cd03-Rev2%2BIssue136v2.doc 

Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great Britain.
Phone & FAX: +44-1962-818014    Mobile: +44-7802-467431  
Email:  mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com

From:	David Booz <booz@us.ibm.com>
To:	sca-assembly@lists.oasis-open.org
Date:	29/07/2009 19:06
Subject:	Re: [sca-assembly] ASSEMBLY-136: Promoting a reference with multiplicity 1..n and targetsshould default to 0..n - Updated Proposal

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Hi Mike,

From the PDF:

1) lines 1466-1480 - Is there a formatting problem here or some typos? The paragraph doesn't read well. Seems self contradictory. 

This is caused by me not accepting the deletion of the old form of the normative statement in the table in Appendix C - 
if you don't do this, then the insertion of the reference to it in the main text ends up containing both the old deleted 
version and the new replacement version.  I didn't check the text carefully enough.  Sorry.

2) tables on lines 1484 and 1485 show checks and x's but the table in the doc file shows numbers (4's and 5's)? Looks like 4's are checks and 5's are x's. What's going on here? 

Well, I was trying to use check marks and crosses to indicate "allowed" and "not allowed" in the table, since it looks more 
effective on the page.  So I chose the WingDings font and then used the symbols from that font for check mark and cross, which 
happen to be "4" and "5" on the keyboard.  But I forgot that such fonts don't necessarily render correctly on everyone's 
system. 

So I've gone back to a much less visually effective form - "YES" and "NO" using the standard font.  But at least everyone will 
see the same now...

3) As far as the technical content goes, it looks like what we talked about. Thanks for writing it up.

Yes, I ended by being surprised by how relatively little change there was, although I think that the proposal makes things 
conceptually a lot simpler.  The tables are a useful clarification, although not strictly essential.

Dave Booz
STSM, BPM and SCA Architecture
Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC and SCA-J TC
"Distributed objects first, then world hunger"
Poughkeepsie, NY (845)-435-6093 or 8-295-6093
e-mail:booz@us.ibm.com

Mike Edwards ---07/29/2009 07:39:41 AM---Folks, Here is a proposal for Issue 136

From:	Mike Edwards <mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com>
To:	"OASIS Assembly" <sca-assembly@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date:	07/29/2009 07:39 AM
Subject:	[sca-assembly] ASSEMBLY-136: Promoting a reference with multiplicity 1..n and targetsshould default to 0..n - Updated Proposal

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Folks, 

Here is a proposal for Issue 136 

Concepts in the proposal: 

1) A component reference can explicitly declare as many targets as are compatible with its multiplicity 

2) When a component reference is promoted, IF the composite reference(s) is configured with at least 1 
target (ie through the component that uses the composite) then the composite reference targets OVERRIDE 
the targets declared on the component reference (ie the component reference targets are not used) 

3) When a component reference is promoted, IF the composite reference(s) has 0 targets configured 
then any targets declared on the component reference are used (ie the declared targets act as default targets) 

4) For x..n component references, it is possible to mark the reference @nonOverridable="true". In this case, 
the set of targets which are used for the reference is the set configured on any composite references which promote 
the reference PLUS the set of targets declared on the reference itself. 

5) For x..1 component references, @nonOverridable="true" means that the reference cannot be promoted. 

6) To set policy (etc) for "internal" references: 
- use intents 
- or attach policySets using ExternalAttachment 
- or attach policySets directly 
(since they can't be configured at all by promotion) 

7) The default multiplicity of a composite reference is determined by: 
- the multiplicities of the component references it promotes 
- whether (all) the promoted component references have at least 1 target declared 

with the principle being that the multiplicity must be set to ensure that the component references will have 
their multiplicity satisfied - 0..x is allowed for the case where the component reference is 1..x, if there is 
a target declared on (all) the component references. 


I've done the formal proposal as a marked up version of CD03-Rev2 (all changes were accepted BEFORE 
adding the changes for this proposal) 


http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-assembly/download.php/33566/sca-assembly-1.1-spec-cd03-Rev2%2BIssue136.pdf 
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/sca-assembly/download.php/33565/sca-assembly-1.1-spec-cd03-Rev2%2BIssue136.doc 


Yours, Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great Britain.
Phone & FAX: +44-1962-818014 Mobile: +44-7802-467431 
Email: mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com

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