Packaging sections

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

The packaging sections of our specifications
are a bit out of date with the current Assembly specification.  The
Assembly specification defines contributions which contain deployable composites
as well as imports (artifacts referenced that are outside of the contribution)
and exports (parts of a composite that can be referenced by other composites).
 Imports and exports are defined as extension points.  There
is no mention of contributions in the packaging sections of our specifications,
nor is there any discussion of using imports to point to executables that
may be outside of a contribution.

Before raising any issues, I would like
to have a discussion about the extent of what we need/want to say in light
of the current definitions of contributions.  Some specific discussion
points:
1) Should we rework the example as a
composite?
2) Should the example show an composite
containing other composites?
3) Should we define import.cpp and import.c
which could point to an external executable.

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

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