Re: [sca-j] Property reinjection - is this covered by Issue-4?

[Mike Edwards <mike_edwards@uk.ibm.com>]

Mark,

You ask a good question.

The main difference that I saw originally
between Properties and References was that the wiring of a Reference can
be changed
completely independently of the configuration
of a component.  Typically, I envisage that to change a property value,
you would
in effect need to update a component
and redeploy.  For me, that said "no reinjection of property
values" - since only new
instances of the redeployed component
would get the updated property value.

However, Dave Booz is suggesting that
a dynamic update of composites/components should be possible, effectively
as a kind
of management action.  Whether
to view this as a "redeployment" is an interesting question,
but it certainly puts back on the
table to question of whether dynamic
update of a property is allowed - and if so, reinjection.

Currently, this is not covered by Issue
4, but we could envisage extending the resolution of Issue 4 to cover properties.
It may be best to raise a new issue
to avoid losing the points you're making.


Yours,  Mike.

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"Mark Combellack" <mcombellack@avaya.com>

21/02/2008 14:26

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Subject	[sca-j] Property reinjection - is this covered by Issue-4?

Hi,
 
I’ve been following the discussions on dependency
reinjection (i.e. getting references re-injected after the application
has been deployed) for Java Issue-4 [1] and it all looks good.
 
I was wondering if this approach was going
to be extended to include property reinjection. For a long running application,
it would be essential for an Administrator to be able to update the properties
to reflect changes that have taken place after the application was deployed.
 
If it is not being covered by Issue-4, is
it worth me raising a new issue to cover property re-injection?
 
Thanks,
 
Mark
 
[1] http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/JAVA-4

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