Re: [sca-c-cpp] NEW ISSUE: C componentType file name and location

[Andrew Borley <BORLEY@uk.ibm.com>]

This issue has been assigned id CCPP-27
in the Jira system. 
See http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/CCPP-27

Andrew

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Andrew Borley
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Bryan Aupperle <aupperle@us.ibm.com> wrote on
10/12/2007 20:42:40:

> 
> 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

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