Re: [sca-assembly] NEW ISSUE: Spec is unclear if callback binding namesneed to be distinct from forward binding names

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Yours,  Mike.

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From:
Simon Nash <>

To:
OASIS Assembly <>

Date:
27/06/2009 09:37

Subject:
[sca-assembly] NEW ISSUE: Spec is unclear
if callback binding names need to be distinct from forward binding names

TARGET: Assembly Model Specification

DESCRIPTION: Spec is unclear if callback binding names need to be distinct
from forward binding names

The Assembly Model spec says that all binding names on a service or

reference need to be unique.  It isn't competely clear whether this

uniqueness requirement extends across the complete set of forward bindings

and callback bindings.  There are at least two possible options:

  1. Every binding (forward and callback) needs to have a name that

     is different from every other binding (forward and callback).

  2. Every forward binding needs to have a name that is different
from

     every other forward binding, and every callback binding
needs to

     have a name that is different from every other callback
binding.

Option 1 seems unnecessarily restrictive.  It disallows some very

common cases, such as:

   <service name="MyService">

       <binding.ws uri="someURI" />

       <callback>

           <binding.ws />

       <callback>

   </service>

This is illegal under option 1 because the names of both the

forward and callback bindings default to the service name MyService.

The solution is to specify an explicit name on either the forward

or callback binding, which is unintuitive and unnecessary.

Option 2 seems better than option 1 because it avoids the need to

specify the unnecessary explicit binding name in the common case

above, while still preserving name uniqueness among forward bindings

and name uniqueness between callback bindings.

PROPOSAL:

Replace ASM90002 by the following:

When a service or reference has multiple bindings, all non-callback

bindings of the service or reference MUST have unique names, and all

callback bindings of the service or reference MUST have unique names.

[ASM90002]  This uniqueness requirement implies that only one non-callback

binding of a service or reference can have the default @name value,

and only one callback binding of a service or reference can have the

default @name value.

   Simon

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