Re: [sca-c-cpp] NEW ISSUE: C componentType file name and location

This issue has been assigned id CCPP-27
in the Jira system. 

See http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/CCPP-27

Andrew

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Andrew Borley

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Bryan Aupperle <> wrote on
10/12/2007 20:42:40:

> 

> TARGET: C C&I Specification 

> 

> Description:  We need to finalize the name and location of 

> componentType files as well as any other SCDL metadata related to

> componentType files. 

> 

> Key points from the assembly specification: 

> - Lines 482-483 of WD01 state that the componentType file has the

> same name as the implementation file but the extension .

> componentType.  But the location is implementation technology

> dependent (lines 484-486). 

> - In the SCDL, the component only defines the componentType 

> indirectly via the implementation.xxx 

> - The componentType schema does not provide a name for a componentType

> 

> As I see the requirements: 

> - The information in implementation.xxx must uniquely identify the

> componentType file. 

> - It needs to be possible to find the file in a simple manner. 

> - It is reasonable to expect multiple component implementations to

> be compiled into a single DLL/shared library/etc. 

> 

> Proposal: 

> The current draft has a problem in that there is no public 

> implementation artifact that uniquely identifies an implementation

> (the source file is probably not considered public).  We need
to add

> a specific componentType attribute to implementation.c.  The
value 

> of this attribute would be the componentType name, including an optional
path.

> 

> Bryan Aupperle, Ph.D.

> STSM, WebSphere Enterprise Platform Software Solution Architect

> Master Inventor

> 

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