Re: [sca-assembly] [Issue 253]: (1.2) Must a global domain channelbe deployed before it can be used?

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Re: [sca-assembly] [Issue 253]: (1.2) Must a global domain channelbe deployed before it can be used?
<vdR>.. responses like this
      ...</vdR>

    

    On 2/14/2011 3:09 AM, Mike Edwards wrote:
    
      

      Danny,
      

      

      Responses as  <mje>...</mje>

      
      

      Yours, Mike
      

      
        
          

            
              
            
          

          

            
              

            
          

          

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            Subject:
            
            Re: [sca-assembly]
                [Issue 253]: (1.2)
                Must a global domain channel be deployed before it can
                be used?
          

        
      
      

      
      

      

      

      

        

        On 2/10/2011 2:48 AM, Mike Edwards wrote: 
      

      

        Danny, 

      

        I'm less about making arguments and more about trying to
        describe the Event
        Processing ideas in the same terms that we
      

        have already described for services in the current V1.1
        specifications.
         There, the spec does describe different styles of
      

        runtime, with differing approaches to deployment and to the
        possibility
        of redeployment. 

      
      

      

        

        Mike - 

        

        Let me rephrase my previous mail from "your arguments ... " to
        "your questions ...".  I didn't mean to appear argumentative
        by my lazy choice of words :-)

      
      

      I tried to point out that
        auto-deployment
        carries an implication of redeployment, since if the runtime
        auto-deploys
        some channel 

        for which there is actually a concrete channel supplied by some
        later deployment,
        then we are inevitably into the realm of 

        redeployment. 
      

      

        Again, though, I don't see the questions being centered around
        auto-deployment,
        but about deployment and redeployment in general.  Imagine, for
        instance
        that in order to deploy some composite, I must first deploy a
        GDC (if we
        don't allow auto-deployment).  So I do so, but give it no
        configuration,
        or any configuration that isn't acceptable to a later
        deployment.  And
        I reword your statement slightly: "... auto-deployment
        carries an implication of redeployment, since if the runtime
           auto- administrator
        deploys some channel for which there is actually a
          concrete channel different
          configuration supplied by some
        later deployment,
        then we are inevitably into the realm of redeployment. "

      
      

      <mje>
      

      Your words don't
          mean anything
          like my original ones - you've avoided the question of how the
          simple case
          of my application composite containing
      

      the definition of
          a Domain
          channel to deploy gets handled in the case of a runtime
          offering auto-deployment.
      

      </mje>
      

    
    

      <vdR>

      My words weren't intended to be too similar to your original, but
      I certainly missed the question of the application composite being
      deployed containing the definition of an auto-deployed channel. 
      My apologies.  I don't see anything for an auto-deploying runtime
      to do in the case where the GDC is defined as part of what is
      being deployed.  But again, if the composite doesn't contain the
      GDC definition, we're back to either rejecting it or
      auto-deploying it, aren't we?  Am I missing something here?

      </vdR>

    

        Redeployment of a channel is at the least a tricky thing.  The
        same
        can be said of the redeployment of a service component.
      

        Basically, what happens to anything that is "in flight"?  I
        was trying to address some of these issues for auto-deploy
        channels in
        what I wrote. 

      
      

      

        I would say that GDC's don't have an analogue in the 1.1
        specification
        in that the 1.1 specification allows and encourages fuller
        encapsulation.
         With the current event processing drafts there is a large area
        where
        we're forcing components that wish to communicate outside of
        their component
        using SCA to do so using GDCs.  There is no way, for instance to
        assemble
        two components that communicate with each other into a
        self-contained,
        encapsulated composite.

        
      

      <mje>
      

      That you can make
          such
          a statement makes me feel that you have a very different
          understanding
          of SCA than I do.
      

      

      For me, the
          assembly of
          2 components that communicate with each other via a channel is
          "HelloWorld"
          level SCA 1.2.
      

      

      I also don't
          understand
          the comment that "we're forcing components ... to do so using
          GDCs"
          - promotion is there for the support of controlled exposure of
          dependencies
          and this applies to both producers and consumers.
      

      

      If your concern is
          with
          this statement in the current spec:  "An
        SCA runtime MAY support the use of private channels [ASM????]."
          ie non-Domain channels are optionally supported, then I
          suggest that you
          raise a very specific issue to deal with that.
      

      </mje>

        
    

    <vdR>

      Can you explain your "HelloWorld" scenario?  Just to be sure that
      you understood my point, what I'm focusing on is the fact that I
      start with 2 components that are developed independently, then I
      assemble them into a composite that is both encapsulated, and
      self-contained.  In my mind that rules out any use of GDCs.  (i.e.
      my "forcing ... " comment as an option that I don't like.)  And
      since we don't have an answer for promotion a la 227, I'm not sure
      how to solve it at all, let alone with the triviality that you
      imply.  What kind of promotion are you using in your use case? 
      Perhaps it's promoting one producer and one consumer?  If so, how
      would you do that with channels instead?  

      

      And no, I'm not talking about the private channels at all in this
      thread.

      </vdR>

      

    
    
          

          In 1.1, the redeployment question
        that you
        ask can be asked for the whole encapsulated composite as a
        whole, and can
        be answered in ways that are probably more self-consistent than
        what we
        can come up with for GDCs.  I understand that this is more of an
        argument
        against GDCs and/or an argument for resolution of 227 in a way
        that addresses
        this question.  I continually find myself butting up against
        that
        issue, yet we seem to have devolved into a pattern of ignoring
        the elephant
        in the room.  This week, this blind man grasps the 227 elephant
        by
        the tail and sees it as a 253 rope ...

      
      

      <mje>
      

      I simply don't
          follow.
      

      </mje>
      

      

      
    

    <vdR>

      Let me take another stab here.  You were asking about
      redeployment.  If what you're redeploying is completely
      encapsulated, then an implementer could imagine various scenarios
      that are all defensible - all in-flight messages are preserved; 
      all in-flight messages are lost; etc.  

      

      I agree with you that redeployment of GDCs poses a sticky
      problem.  My answer to that is to use GDCs less, or delete them
      entirely.  If we could solve 227, I would find myself FAR less
      likely to want to use GDCs.  That was the point I was trying to
      make, albeit a bit obliquely.  My apologies for that.

      

      Regardeless of what happens with 227, I don't see how adding this
      other use case where GDCs could be redeployed puts the onus of
      solving the redeployment problem on that new use case.  That seems
      to me to be your argument.

      </vdR>

      

    
    
        Now, let me make my position clear on "auto deployment".  I
        think that we have similar behaviour applied in particular to
        PolicySets,
      

        with the notion that in principle an SCA Runtime can have other
        mechanisms
        to supply these things to the Domain, other than by
      

        deploying the contents of one or more Contributions.  eg there
        is
        the concept of PolicySets being deployed from some kind of
      

        Repository and not necessarily being held in any application
        Contribution.
         The current specs don't disallow this, although they
      

        deliberately don't say much about it since the possibilities for
        implementation
        are very broad and there is little normative to say.
      

        What it is - is outside the standards. 
      

      

        While I see some analogy here, and agree with it, the presence
        of a reference
        channel is somewhat more intrinsic to operation than the
        presence of a
        PolicySet is, so I feel much less comfortable being vague about
        it.  Clarity
        is necessary here, whether it is to explicitly allow or
        explicity disallow
        auto-deployment and/or define what the behavior is in the
        absence of a
        referenced GDC.

      
      

      

        So, I could envisage auto-deployment along the same lines.
         Something
        that any SCA Runtime could choose to provide by some
      

        means, but where the SCA specifications say very little.  If an
        SCA
        runtime chooses to provide auto-deployment, then it can do so
      

        in any way it wishes. 
      

      

        I agree that it would be an implementation decision as to how to
        do it.
         I would support a proposal that uses different RFC language
        from
        the initial proposal in the JIRA.  Something along the lines of
        

        

      

        When contributing artifacts to a domain that contain references
        to global
        domain channels that have not been previously deployed, the SCA
        runtime
        MAY reject such contributions.  Alternatively, the SCA runtime
        MAY
        automatically create and deploy said global domain channels in
        this situation.
      

      
      

      

      

        The downside for an application developer is that their
        application, as
        contained in a set of Contributions, may not work on some SCA
      

        runtimes, if the developer/assembler chooses not to contain one
        or more
        Domain Channels within their composites, that they rely on
      

        in some components within the application.  If they do this,
        then
        their application may work fine on an SCA runtime that supports
      

        auto-creation but fail when run with a runtime that does not
        support auto-creation.
         The same is true, I note, of PolicySets - if the
      

        application does not supply them, there is no guarantee that
        they will
        be made available through some other mechanism by the
      

        SCA runtime. 
      

      

        See my earlier comment on the analogue to policySets.  I would
        also
        point out that the "defensive" manuever of including the GDC
        in the composite may well backfire if the GDC already exists in
        the domain.
         Are we left with another issue along the lines of do we allow
        deployment
        of "compatible" configurations of GDCs??

        

      
      

      

        However, for any SCA Runtime that DOES provide auto-creation,
        there is
        a need to describe what happens if, due to the sequence of
      

        deployments, some auto-created channel is "replaced" by the
        later
        deployment of a "real channel".  In my opinion, it would
        be wise to 

        try to avoid such a situation.  However, I don't see a way of
        preventing
        this situation - perhaps this is something that you'd like to
        describe.
      

      
      

      

        To answer whether the auto-deployed channel is any less "real"
        than something else, I would offer that it doesn't matter to the
        runtime
        where the contribution came from.  So if you would find it more
        clear
        to define auto-deployment as the process of the runtime
        synthesizing a
        piece of contribution and deploying it, I would not object to
        that.
      

      

      <mje>
      

      An auto-deployed
          channel
          would be just as real as anything else, but you seem to be
          sliding away
          from my point - IF a channel were auto-deployed but my
          application happened
          to consist of multiple
      

      separately
          deployed contributions
          and just happened to contain the definition of the Domain
          channel in a
          contribution that is deployed later, then what happens?
      

      

      How does the
          deployer distinguish
          this case?
      

      </mje>

      
    

    <vdR>

      I think I'm starting to see what I couldn't divine before - your
      use case seems to be not that the GDC is deployed 2 weeks after
      the composite in which it is used, as I had thought.  Your use
      case is that the GDC is deployed 30 seconds after?  Is that it?

      

      In that case, you have a problem no matter what.  There is going
      to have to be *something* done by the runtime to the first
      composite.  Either the runtime should reject its deployment, the
      runtime should ask "Do you have a GDC definition in your pocket
      that I could deploy before I (finish) deploy(ing) this one?" it
      could auto-deploy one and fail/redeploy later, etc.  There are
      many possibilities.  But again, I don't see how auto-deployment
      *creates* this problem.  It is possible that it exacerbates it, I
      agree.  But if that's what you're worried about, then let's answer
      that in the context of an issue around that, rather than in this
      issue.

      </vdR>

    

    
        

        Redeployment is something that we must describe in general for
        all of SCA.
         
      

      

      <mje>
      

      OK, in that case,
          would
          you care to describe the redeployment of a Channel and its
          implications?
      

      

      So far I have
          noted that
          auto-creation implies redeployment.  One reason I'm not in
          favour
          of auto-deployment is BECAUSE of this redeployment implication
          and its
          consequences.
      

      If you can show
          that redeployment
          of a channel is a breeze, then perhaps some of my concerns
          will go away.
      

      </mje>
      

      

      

    
    <vdR>

      I'm fine with the idea of deleting GDCs from the draft.  That
      would go a long way to dealing with your redeployment issues.  I
      imagine that idea wouldn't go over well, though ;-)  

      

      I disagree with what you note.  Auto-creation does not imply
      redeployment.  Sure, redeployment can follow auto-creation, but
      redeployment is not required.  If redeployment is your bugbear,
      then let's have an issue about that, and not think that a spec
      without auto-creation doesn't require dealing with redeployment.

      </vdR>

      

    
    Absent that, I don't see any need to
        describe this isolated
        case.  Again, I would see the auto-deployment as shorthand for
        deploying
        a GDC with the required name and no other configuration.
         Assuming
        that it is deployed, later deployment of a channel with the same
        name would
        simply follow our redeployment rules.  If we choose to leave the
        spec
        silent on redeployment, we haven't made the issue any worse by
        allowing
        auto-deployment, as redeploying a channel that was previously
        auto-deployed
        would be exactly as implementation-defined as any other
        redeployment -
        no more, no less.

        

        Danny

      
      

      

        Yours, Mike 
      
        
          

            
              
            
          

          

            
              

            
          

          

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            From:
              
            
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            Date:
              
            
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            Subject:
              
            
            Re: [sca-assembly]
                [Issue 253]: (1.2)
                Must a global domain channel be deployed before it can
                be used?
          

        
      
      

      

      
      

        

        

        Mike - 

        

        Your arguments seem to me to be more arguing against case a)
        than against
        autocreation, as they hold for *any* more restrictive
        redeployment, not
        just one whose previously deployed state was perhaps
        auto-deployed.

        

        Auto-deployment (as I envision it) is merely shorthand for an
        actual deployment.
        ("Your composite references a global domain channel that hasn't
        been
        deployed.  Shall I create one for you and deploy it, or would
        you
        prefer me to reject deployment of your composite outright?")
         Your
        arguments just point out another weakness I see in the concept
        of global
        domain channels.

        

        Danny

        

        On 2/9/2011 2:45 AM, Mike Edwards wrote: 

        

        Danny, 

        

        SCA Runtime "styles"; 

        

        a) Reconfiguration/Redeployment is allowed
      

        b) Reconfiguration/Redeployment is not allowed 

        

        Case b) is the simpler of the two.  In this case, all the
        configuration
        must be present when the runtime is started. 

        Either Domain channels are part of the configuration at this
        point or not
        - if not, then any references to Domain 

        channels would either be errors (no auto-creation of channels)
        or would
        require auto-creation of channels. 

        

        Case a) is the case where there can be separate deployment of
        (some) consumers
        & producers and of the 

        channel(s) that they connect to.  I note that this can only
        happen
        for Domain level channels.  Once separate
      

        deployment is possible, then the timing of deployment matters -
        if Channel
        deployment is later than deployment 

        of any of the producers that connect to the channel, then it the
        question
        of auto-creation comes into play. 

        If no auto-creation is NOT allowed by the runtime, then any
        event produced
        will have nowhere to go, which might 

        be flagged as an error (since the producer is configured to
        transmit the
        events).  If auto-creation is allowed, then
      

        the events will be flowed to an auto-created Channel and on to
        whatever
        consumers are connected to that channel. 

        

        When the Channels are later deployed into such a runtime, I
        assume that
        the auto-created Channels get "replaced"
      

        by the deployed versions, with whatever configuration they
        carry.  Since
        the configuration may carry Filters, this may 

        mean that some events get forwarded by the auto-created channel
        that don't
        get forwarded by the specifically 

        deployed channel.  I'm not sure what this would mean for the
        consumers
        attached to the channel.  More problematic
      

        would be any binding and policy information attached - the
        binding could
        indicate the need to have the channel use
      

        some specific existing infrastructure (eg some MQ queue) - and
        if the intention
        is that events flow to/from the existing 

        infrastructure, then the auto-deploy channel is unlikely to do
        this.  
      

        

        I think the result of this is that during the period when any
        auto-deploy
        channels are being used, before the point 

        where the specifically configured channels are active, that some
        events
        may not reach all their intended destination(s) 

        and some events may not be received by some SCA consumers
        listening on
        those channels. 

        

        All of which might argue for a process of deploying the Domain
        channels
        first, which kind of undermines the idea of
      

        auto-deploying those channels. 

      

      

        

        Yours, Mike 
      
        
          

            
              
            
          

          

            
              

            
          

          

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            From:
              
            
            Danny van
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            To:
              
            
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            Date:
              
            
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            Subject:
              
            
            Re: [sca-assembly]
                [Issue 253]: (1.2)
                Must a global domain channel be deployed before it can
                be used?
          

        
      
      

      

        

      
      

        

        

        OK, I'll take a stab at answering your question, although I'm
        just presenting
        one alternative among many.

        

        First, though, your wording interests me:

        

        in the case where the channel concerned DOES 

        have configuration and it so happens that the channel is
        deployed to the
        Domain some time after some of the 

        producers and consumers using the channel are deployed to the
        Domain.
        

        

        

        What intrigues me is the notion that your use case allows you to
        assert
        that something about the channel's configuration.  Can that
        configuration
        never change?  If so, how would you deal with changing that?  By
        undeploying and redeploying it?   Some other means?

        

        I would apply whatever answer you have to that question to this
        one.

        

        To wit:

        

        Say that you do allow some form of runtime redeployment or
        modification.
         So in this case the implementation MAY autodeploy the channel
        (RFC
        2119 wording intentional).  If someone chooses to redeploy the
        channel
        with further configuration later, so be it.  Use whatever form
        of
        modification you were going to support in the case where the
        prior configuration
        was not auto-deployed.

        

        Say you don't allow modification.  Then I'd say that your
        implementation
        should either not allow for autodeployment, or that your
        implementation
        should put up some reasonable bar to autodeployment.

        

        Danny

        

        On 2/8/2011 1:51 AM, Mike Edwards wrote: 

        

        Folks, 

        

        I'd appreciate it if someone could explain how things would work
        in the
        case where the channel concerned DOES 

        have configuration and it so happens that the channel is
        deployed to the
        Domain some time after some of the 

        producers and consumers using the channel are deployed to the
        Domain.
      

        

        

        Yours, Mike 
      
        
          

            
              
            
          

          

            
              

            
          

          

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            From:
              
            
            Anish
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            To:
              
            
            
              
            
          

          

            Date:
              
            
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            Subject:
              
            
            Re: [sca-assembly]
                [Issue 253]: (1.2)
                Must a global domain channel be deployed before it can
                be used?
          

        
      
      

      

        

        

      
      

          

          

          Danny and Eric's arguments have convinced me that
          auto-creation of 

          global channels make sense. It would certainly simplify
          config/deploy --
          

          I won't have to create a separate composite that contains only
          the 

          channel name and then deploy it to the domain. Currently we do
          allow 

          this for the default channel ("//"). As Eric points out, my
          issue
          wrt 

          error detection can be dealt with by tools (I can have a
          global option
          

          or flag for the deployer). Given that we already allow this
          for the 

          default channel, and channels currently require no additional
          

          configuration (one can have configuration, but is not required
          to), 

          autocreation would provide a consistent model and would make
          simple 

          deployment scenarios easier.

          

          -Anish

          --

          

          On 2/7/2011 9:50 AM, Eric Johnson wrote:

          >   To be more explicit, and echo Danny's point, I think we
          have
          four options:

          >

          > 1) Mandate that auto-creation of channels works

          > 2) Mandate that auto-creation of channels never works

          > 3) Identify specific situations where #1 or #2 are
          possible

          > 4) Take no position (this may still imply changes to the
          spec, insofar

          > as we highlight the point, while taking no sides)

          >

          > I raised the issue because #4, it seems to me, leaves the
          door open
          for

          > interoperability failures. ("I deployed X over here with
          no problems,

          > but it doesn't work over there.")

          >

          > Insofar as I've recall the discussion of the concrete use
          cases for

          > global domain channels (Oracle's F2F presentation), we
          explicitly
          noted:

          > no filters, no policies, and no bindings on said
          channels. Meaning,

          > configuration optional, and it's just a name. If it is
          just a name,
          why

          > can't I auto-create?

          >

          > Anish notes that some people like the safety net of
          predefined names,

          > and I agree that's useful. However, that can be addressed
          in a variety

          > of ways that aren't nearly so heavy-handed as to simply
          deny the

          > deployment. ("The domain contribution includes references
          to
          global

          > domain channel "foo" that doesn't yet exist.
          Continue/Cancel?).

          >

          > -Eric.

          >

          > On 2/7/11 9:30 AM, Danny van der Rijn wrote:

          >> Yet all their configuration is optional?

          >>

          >> On 2/7/2011 3:39 AM, Mike Edwards wrote:

          >>>

          >>> Eric,

          >>>

          >>> My view is that global channels - indeed any
          channels - are
          more than

          >>> a name - they have configuration associated

          >>> with them. A system which does not require them
          to be declared
          makes

          >>> it difficult to provide required configuration.

          >>>

          >>> Yours, Mike

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          >>> From:                
           Eric Johnson <>

          >>> To:                
           Anish Karmarkar <>

          >>> Cc:                
           

          >>> Date:                
           04/02/2011 17:14

          >>> Subject:              
             Re: [sca-assembly] [Issue 253]: (1.2) Must a global domain

          >>> channel be deployed before it can be used?

          >>>

          >>>

          >>>
          ------------------------------------------------------------------------

          >>>

          >>>

          >>>

          >>>

          >>> On 2/4/11 1:37 AM, Anish Karmarkar wrote:

          >>> > I don't see this being different than say
          requiring that
          a variable be

          >>> > declared before it is used.

          >>> <eej>

          >>> Which might be a perfect analogy.

          >>>

          >>> If the only point of a global channel is to
          establish a name,
          then

          >>> there's actually minimal value to declaring it
          before it is
          used. Many

          >>> dynamic languages work this way - Python &
          Ruby. In the
          case of global

          >>> domain channels, for many use cases, filters and
          bindings
          don't make

          >>> sense, so the channel just becomes a name. At
          which point,
          declaration

          >>> before use looks like ceremony over substance.

          >>>

          >>> </eej>

          >>> >

          >>> > -Anish

          >>> > --

          >>> >

          >>> > On 2/1/2011 10:11 AM, Danny van der Rijn
          wrote:

          >>> >> An interesting argument for tight
          coupling...

          >>> >>

          >>> >> On 2/1/2011 6:19 AM, Anish Karmarkar
          wrote:

          >>> >>> I think this is a fine issue to
          raise, but I
          don't quite support the

          >>> >>> auto-creation proposal. The only
          global channel
          that is

          >>> >>> 'auto-deployed' or always exists is
          the default
          channel.

          >>> >>>

          >>> >>> I would want the runtime to tell me
          if I referenced
          a channel

          >>> that has

          >>> >>> not been deployed (unless it is the
          default channel,
          which is the

          >>> >>> exception). If I want a producer and
          consumer
          (especially if they are

          >>> >>> in different composites) to
          communicate over
          a common channel, I

          >>> would

          >>> >>> want the system to catch typos. For
          example,
          if the producer is

          >>> >>> connected to the channel "//omg" and
          the consumer is connected to

          >>> >>> "//zomg", they would be deployed
          fine
          but my application would not

          >>> >>> work correctly.

          >>> >>>

          >>> >>> -Anish

          >>> >>> --

          >>> >>>

          >>> >>> On 1/31/2011 10:19 AM, Eric Johnson
          wrote:

          >>> >>>> Hi Peter,

          >>> >>>>

          >>> >>>> On 1/31/11 10:02 AM, Peter
          Niblett wrote:

          >>> >>>>> Eric

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> You said..

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> Neither of the above
          indicate whether
          or not the global domain

          >>> >>>>> channel

          >>> >>>>> can be used before it is
          referenced.

          >>> >>>>

          >>> >>>> Ah yes, the joys of a muddled
          brain on Monday
          morning. You're

          >>> >>>> correct -

          >>> >>>> the question is whether or not
          the global
          domain channel can be used

          >>> >>>> before it is *created* via a
          contribution.

          >>> >>>>

          >>> >>>> Thanks for catching my
          circularity.

          >>> >>>>

          >>> >>>> -Eric.

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> I'm not sure how you can
          "use"
          a channel without referencing it (I

          >>> >>>>> assume "reference" means
          "wire
          to/from"), but I think the question

          >>> >>>>> you

          >>> >>>>> are asking is the one in the
          title -
          "can you reference a channel

          >>> >>>>> that

          >>> >>>>> hasn't been defined to the
          SCA assembly?".
          I think this is one

          >>> place

          >>> >>>>> where the current spec is
          clear.. you
          can't reference a domain

          >>> >>>>> channel

          >>> >>>>> that hasn't been defined.

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> So it looks as though your
          issue is to
          say that we should

          >>> change the

          >>> >>>>> spec to say that it permits
          (in fact
          requires) autocreation of

          >>> domain

          >>> >>>>> channels. Presumably these
          channels would
          have to be created with

          >>> >>>>> default attributes (though I
          know you
          think they shouldn't have

          >>> >>>>> attributes at all).

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> Regards

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> Peter Niblett

          >>> >>>>> IBM Senior Technical Staff
          Member

          >>> >>>>> Member of the IBM Academy of
          Technology

          >>> >>>>> +44 1962 815055

          >>> >>>>> +44 7825 657662 (mobile)

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> From: Eric Johnson<>

          >>> >>>>> To: OASIS SCA Assembly<>

          >>> >>>>> Date: 31/01/2011 17:19

          >>> >>>>> Subject: [sca-assembly] NEW
          ISSUE: (1.2)
          Must a global domain

          >>> channel

          >>> >>>>> be deployed before it can be
          used?

          >>> >>>>>

          >>>
          ------------------------------------------------------------------------

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> Title: Must a global domain
          channel be
          deployed before it can be

          >>> >>>>> used?

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> Target: Assembly 1.2 WD 03

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> Description:

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> Via the "@target" and
          "@source"
          attributes defined on a consumer&

          >>> >>>>> producer, the assembler can
          reference
          global domain channels.

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> In section 5.8, the presumed
          to be normative
          text reads "SCA

          >>> runtimes

          >>> >>>>> MUST support the use of
          domain channels
          [ASM????]." That is

          >>> followed

          >>> >>>>> by:

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> "To create a Domain Channel,
          deploy
          a composite containing a

          >>> channel

          >>> >>>>> directly to the SCA Domain
          (i.e., do
          not use that composite as the

          >>> >>>>> implementation of some
          component in the
          Domain)."

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> Neither of the above
          indicate whether
          or not the global domain

          >>> >>>>> channel

          >>> >>>>> can be used before it is
          referenced.

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> Proposal:

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> General theme: do not
          require the global
          domain channel to exist

          >>> >>>>> before

          >>> >>>>> it can be used.

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> Specific text (needs
          refinement?):

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> In section 5.8, Paragraph
          #2, append:

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>> When contributing artifacts
          to a domain
          that contain references to

          >>> >>>>> global domain channels that
          have not
          been created, the SCA runtime

          >>> >>>>> MUST

          >>> >>>>> automatically create said
          global domain
          channels, and cannot reject

          >>> >>>>> such

          >>> >>>>> contributions [ASM????].

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>>

          >>> >>>>>

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