ISSUE 80: Proposed response

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

I propose that we respond to this comment
with the following  (this would part of a e-mail that is a response
to all of his comments): 

The Assembly specification repeatedly
discusses SCA runtime behavior and has conformance clauses for it.  An
SCA runtime is responsible for loading appropriate artifacts, including
component implementation instances.  This means that C++ component
implementation instances are loaded by and run in the context of the SCA
runtime.  An SCA runtime that supports C++ component implementations
provides the classes defined in the C++ client and implementation specification.
 These classes could be contained in one or more libraries provided
by the runtime implementation, but the runtime must also be able to load
component implementation instances when external requests are made of remotable
services via identified bindings and invoke the appropriate member functions.

The C++ client and implementation specification
does not in and of itself define how the SCA runtime is implemented. The
implementation could clearly be in C or C++ but there is no reason that
a Java SCA implementation could not be created that provides the required
support for C++ component implementations via appropriate JNI logic. 

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

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