[sca-bpel] Component Types in SCA

["Najeeb Andrabi" <nandrabi@tibco.com>]

 

       I would like to make a comment about Component Types in SCA. This is in context with defining a component type file for BPEL implementations. I am curious about the fact that a component cannot refer a component type: it has to infer what its type might be using implementation.* element. I don’t understand the rationale behind this approach. Component type defines the type of component so why it cannot refer it. Approach of referring ones type is used everywhere in specifications like XML schema, WSDL, BPEL etc. e.g. a schema element can have a reference to complex type that defines the type of the element.

 

      My comment may be because of lack of understanding of SCA assembly specification. But, from my understanding of the specification I think we should allow components to refer their type.

 

--Najeeb