RE: loom, spice issue

G'day,

Sorry for taking so long to reply. Real life got in the way and this email
got filled away for later.


> From: Tomas Knappek 
> Subject: loom, spice issue
> 
> Hi Peter,
> I'm sorry I write directly to you but I'm not sure If the problem I'm
> facing is really issue or it is already fixed as I'm new to loom.
> I've been trying to use loom but there was still issue with getting
> "dependency" components and here is what happens:
> 
> when I use
> import org.apache.avalon.framework.service.*;
> in my component class code, the lookup of component doesn't work - there
> was an exception saying that I used uknown dependancy in my assembly.xml
> file, but i've found out that by using this type of import the spice-
> metaclass method Attributes:MethodDescriptor getMethod( final Method
> method ) simply doen't return the correct method descriptor because the
> statement:
> if( !type.getName().equals( parameter.getType() ) )
> returns false
> type.getName() - returns
> org.apache.avalon.framework.service.ServiceManager
> parameter.getType() - returns ServiceManager

Okay - I think I know what the problem is. Essentially I think that the
Avalon jar was not included when the MetaClass generator was run. I will
look at the code and fix this up. We are going to do a release soon
(hopefully) so I will try to remember to email you when it is fixed and
released.

> quick workaround is to use strict imports but anyway IMHO it should work
> with .* like imports too
> What do you think about it?

I agree - it is a bug.

> btw: I like the loom very much, I'm going to use it for some parts of our
> corporate software,also let me know if you need loom volunteers ;-)

Volunteering would be fantastic. Probably the best thing to do is jump on
the jcontainer-interest mailing list and fire off a few emails to introduce
yourself. Hopefully we can point you in the right direction if you want to
volunteer for something ;)

Cheers,

Peter Donald