OASIS Mailing List ArchivesView the OASIS mailing list archive below
or browse/search using MarkMail.

 


Help: OASIS Mailing Lists Help | MarkMail Help

sca-j message

[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]


Subject: RE: [sca-j] ISSUE 4 - Dependency reinjection


Seems like a hack to me.  And it doesn't address the larger problem where
the reference suddenly becomes unusable because the target was changed.
This is similar to a referential integrity problem.  The component wants to
state that it can't tolerate the loss of a valid reference part way through
it's processing.

Dave Booz
STSM, SCA and WebSphere Architecture
Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC
"Distributed objects first, then world hunger"
Poughkeepsie, NY (845)-435-6093  or  8-295-6093
e-mail:booz@us.ibm.com
http://washome.austin.ibm.com/xwiki/bin/view/SCA2Team/WebHome


                                                                           
             Mike Edwards                                                  
             <mike_edwards@uk.                                             
             ibm.com>                                                   To 
                                       sca-j@lists.oasis-open.org          
             12/05/2007 04:28                                           cc 
             AM                                                            
                                                                   Subject 
                                       RE: [sca-j] ISSUE 4 - Dependency    
                                       reinjection                         
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           





Folks,

Controlling whether reinjection is allowed AT ALL for a component is
relatively simple in
my opinion:

- if a component does not want reference reinjection to occur, ever, then
the implementation
simply declares the reference annotation on a constructor parameter and
does not
provide the reference via either a field or via a setter method.  If the
reference is only
injectable via the constructor then it can never be changed by the
container.

This simple design choice allows complete control by the developer of the
implementation.


Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great Britain.
Phone & FAX: +44-1962-818014    Mobile: +44-7802-467431
Email:  mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com

                                                                           
 David Booz <booz@us.ibm.com>                                              
                                                                           
                                                                           
 05/12/2007 02:37                                                       To 
                                                  sca-j@lists.oasis-open.o 
                                                  rg                       
                                                                        cc 
                                                                           
                                                                   Subject 
                                                  RE: [sca-j] ISSUE 4 -    
                                                  Dependency reinjection   
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           





It's simple, just not well expressed.  I'm wondering if there are cases
where a component implementation might want to delay or "opt out" of
re-injection either permanently or temporarily.  There might be cases where
a particular component implementation really can't tolerate a re-injection.
I was thinking out loud about using concurrency control as a temporary
means to delay re-injection. There are other ways.  Maybe a different
approach like an annotation @AllowsReinjection (or the opposite) is
sufficient.

I understand that what you are proposing is optional for a runtime to
support, but for those runtimes that do support it, each component
implementation might need to have a say in how it works.  Still thinking
out loud....

Dave Booz
STSM, SCA and WebSphere Architecture
Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC
"Distributed objects first, then world hunger"
Poughkeepsie, NY (845)-435-6093  or  8-295-6093
e-mail:booz@us.ibm.com
http://washome.austin.ibm.com/xwiki/bin/view/SCA2Team/WebHome



            "Michael Rowley"
            <mrowley@bea.com>
                                                                       To
            12/04/2007 08:11          David Booz/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS,
            PM                        <sca-j@lists.oasis-open.org>
                                                                       cc

                                                                  Subject
                                      RE: [sca-j] ISSUE 4 - Dependency
                                      reinjection











     -----Original Message-----
     From: David Booz [mailto:booz@us.ibm.com]
     Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:06 PM
     To: sca-j@lists.oasis-open.org
     Subject: RE: [sca-j] ISSUE 4 - Dependency reinjection

     Michael,

     And tagging on a few more questions:

     1) I presume that the use of setter based injection would allow for]
     concurrency serialization by the component implementation so that it
     could:
     stabilize it's use of references.  This brings up an interesting
     question;:
     is there (or should there be) some linkage between the lifecycle of
     the
     target service and these references?  Just because a ref target has
     been
     altered, does not mean that the target service is gone.  It's the
     lifecycle
     of that target service which will determine how long a reference
     remains
     usable after a wiring change occurs.  Just raising the question for
     now
     because it will affect all the component's whose references can't be
     re-injected.

[MR: I’m sorry, but I don’t follow you.]


     2) I'm curious about your introduction of InvalidServiceException.
     We
     already have ServiceUnavailableException.  I think there's room to
     clarify
     the wording of SUE to make room for ISE..

[MR: I think that a service that has been correctly identified, but isn’t
currently available is quite different from a service that is incorrectly
identified (it isn’t in the logical domain).  As such, I think it deserves
a different exception.]

     3) +1 to Mike E.

[MR: No objection from me.]

Michael


     Dave Booz
     STSM, SCA and WebSphere Architecture
     Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC
     "Distributed objects first, then world hunger"
     Poughkeepsie, NY (845)-435-6093  or  8-295-6093
     e-mail:booz@us.ibm.com
     http://washome.austin.ibm.com/xwiki/bin/view/SCA2Team/WebHome


                  Mike Edwards
                  <mike_edwards@uk.
                  ibm.com>
     To
                                            "OASIS Java"
                  12/04/2007 10:22          <sca-j@lists.oasis-open.org>
                  AM
     cc

     Subject
                                            RE: [sca-j] ISSUE 4 -
     Dependency
                                            reinjection





     Michael,

     Thanks for the proposal.  It is good to have something concrete as it
     help
     crystallise the
     issues.

     Please help me understand the rationale for treating Composite-scoped
     components
     differently from Conversation scoped components.

     Both types of component have an extended lifecycle.  Both may easily
     have a
     lifecycle
     that spans changes in configuration that affects their references,
     even
     where those
     references are not conversational and do not in themselves involve
     some
     extended
     lifetime.  Why is it justified to change references in the one case
     and not
     allow changes
     in the other case?


     Yours,  Mike.

     Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.
     Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.
     IBM Hursley Park, Mail Point 146, Winchester, SO21 2JN, Great
     Britain.
     Phone & FAX: +44-1962-818014    Mobile: +44-7802-467431
     Email:  mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com

     "Michael Rowley" <mrowley@bea.com> wrote on 29/11/2007 20:19:28:

     >
     > I took an action item to make a more specific proposal for:
     > dependency reinjection.  Here it is:
     >
     > Reinjection
     > -----------
     >
     > References MAY be reinjected after the initial creation of a
     > component due to a change in wiring that has occurred since the
     > component was initialized.  In order for reinjection to occur, the
     > following MUST be true:
     > - The component MUST be composite-scoped.
     > - The reference MUST use either field-based injection or setter
     > injection.  References that are injected through constructor
     > injection MUST NOT be changed.
     > - If the reference has a conversational interface, then a
     > conversation MUST NOT be active at the time of the reinjection.
     >
     > If processing in reaction to a change in a reference is necessary,
     > then setter injection should be used, with code in the setter
     method
     > that does the proper processing in reaction to a change.
     >
     > Components with any scope other than the composite scope MUST NOT
     > have references reinjected.  If an operation is called on a
     > reference where the target of that reference is no longer valid,
     > then InvalidServiceException MUST be thrown.
     >
     > In cases where changes to a reference are not valid, the reference
     > as accessed through the component context also MUST NOT change.
     > More precisely, the ComponentContext.getService() and
     > getServiceReference() methods MUST return the same reference target
     > as would be accessed through injection.  However, the
     > ServiceReference that is returned by getServiceReference() never
     > changes its target.  If the wiring of a composite component causes
     a
     > reference to be reinjected, any ServiceReference object that was
     > acquired before the reinjection will still correspond to the target
     > prior to the change.  If the target service for a ServiceReference
     > ever becomes invalid, then attempts to call business methods
     through
     > that ServiceReference MUST throw InvalidServiceException.
     >
     > The rules for reference reinjection also apply to references with a
     > 0..N or 1..N.  This means that in the cases listed above where
     > reference reinjection is not allowed, the array or Collection for
     > the reference MUST NOT change their contents.  In cases where the
     > contents of a reference collection MAY change, then for references
     > that use setter injection, the setter method MUST be called for any
     > change to the contents.  The injected collection MAY be the same
     > collection object as is currently used by the component, but with
     > some change to its contents.
     >
     > Michael







     Unless stated otherwise above:
     IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with
     number
     741598.
     Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire
     PO6 3AU











     ---------------------------------------------------------------------
     To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that
     generates this mail.  You may a link to this group and all your TCs
     in OASIS
     at:
     https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php









Unless stated otherwise above:
IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number
741598.
Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU










[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]