NEW ISSUE: C componentType file name and location

[Bryan Aupperle <aupperle@us.ibm.com>]

TARGET: C C&I Specification

Description:  We need to finalize
the name and location of componentType files as well as any other SCDL
metadata related to componentType files.

Key points from the assembly specification:
- Lines 482-483 of WD01 state that the
componentType file has the same name as the implementation file but the
extension .componentType.  But the location is implementation technology
dependent (lines 484-486).
- In the SCDL, the component only defines
the componentType indirectly via the implementation.xxx
- The componentType schema does not
provide a name for a componentType

As I see the requirements:
- The information in implementation.xxx
must uniquely identify the componentType file.
- It needs to be possible to find the
file in a simple manner.
- It is reasonable to expect multiple
component implementations to be compiled into a single DLL/shared library/etc.

Proposal:
The current draft has a problem in that
there is no public implementation artifact that uniquely identifies an
implementation (the source file is probably not considered public).  We
need to add a specific componentType attribute to implementation.c.  The
value of this attribute would be the componentType name, including an optional
path.

Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
STSM, WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect
Master Inventor

Research Triangle Park,  NC 
+1 919-254-7508 (T/L 444-7508)
Internet Address: aupperle@us.ibm.com