Re: Minimal set of component attributes?

Berin Loritsch <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:46:22 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.avalon.phoenix.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stephen McConnell wrote:
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> Berin Loritsch wrote:
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>> I have some rudimentary support for using attributes to represent
>> components and their roles.  The core mechanisms in Fortress have
>> not changed, but I am adding a new RoleManager that can read a
>> resolve components from several different jars automatically.
>>
>> It will be used in my GUIApp system--but I want to put it in Fortress
>> before we release as well.  I want to mark the services and components
>> with a minimal set of attributes--which will get our users used to
>> added functionality in Merlin and Phoenix.
>>
>> I can think of the following *core* attributes:
>>
>> @avalon.service   -- Required for marking role interfaces. 
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> Are you using this as a marker attribute in an interface soruce or a 
> attribute of a component class?
> 
> i.e. @avalon.service <---- this is a work interface

This one.  It is much easier to mark an interface with a flag
than to rely on the fact that I have a memory like a seive.