[NEW ISSUE] Remove the use of componentType side files from the Java C&Ispecification

Raiser:        
        Mike Edwards

Target:        
       sca-javaci-1.1-spec-wd02.doc

Description

All the features relevant to the componentType
of a Java POJO implementation can be derived from introspection,

as described in Section 8 of the Java
C&I specification.

Section 10 of the C&I specification
suggests that it is also possible to derive aspects of the componentType
from a

side file.  However, this section
indicates that the merging of information from the side file with the introspected

information is defined by the SCA Assembly
specification.  This is not so and the Assembly TC voted a resolution

that put the burden of describing the
use of componentType side files squarely on the shoulders of the implementation

TCs.

In addition, there is a recommendation
from the SCA Liaison committee that EITHER componentType information

is derived from introspection or is
derived entirely from a componentType side file - but that combining information

from these two sources is not recommended
and that an implementation type should choose to do one or the other.

This issue is raised to remove the complexity
of merging componentType side file metadata with introspected

componentType information.

Proposal

Remove Section 10 of the specification.

Yours,  Mike.

Strategist - Emerging Technologies, SCA & SDO.

Co Chair OASIS SCA Assembly TC.

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