ISSUE-199: What URI does getURI() return?

[David Booz <booz@us.ibm.com>]

http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/JAVA-199

Dave Booz
STSM, BPM and SCA Architecture
Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC and SCA-J TC
"Distributed objects first, then world hunger"
Poughkeepsie, NY (845)-435-6093  or  8-295-6093
e-mail:booz@us.ibm.com


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  |Bryan Aupperle/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS                                                                                                                  |
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  |sca-j@lists.oasis-open.org                                                                                                                        |
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  |06/21/2010 12:58 PM                                                                                                                               |
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  |[sca-j] NEW ISSUE: What URI does getURI() return.                                                                                                 |
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Target: CAA Specification CD04

Description:  The description of the getURI() method of ComponentContext
and the associated normative statement  JCA80008 state that the method
returns the absolute URI of the component..  It is unclear what the
absolute URI of a component is.  At run time a component has a structural
URI as defined in section 5.8 of the Assembly spec.  The structural URI of
a component is relative to the domain., so an absolute URI could be formed
by concatenating the domain URI and the structural URI.  However, there is
no standard way to define a domain URI and it is unclear if including the
domain URI adds any additional value.

Proposal:  replace "absolute" with "structural" in JCA80008 and the
description of getURI().

Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.
STSM, WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect
WW Center of Excellence for Enterprise Systems & Banking Center of
Excellence Application Integration Architect

Research Triangle Park,  NC
+1 919-254-7508 (T/L 444-7508)
Internet Address: aupperle@us.ibm.com