Components in blocks

[Daniel Fagerstrom]

I have continued the work that Sylvain started on ECM++ - OSGi service 
bridge, and have some questions.

I start with a simpler one about component configuration. The idea is 
that the block.xml have an optional component section which declares the 
components that the block exports (see webapp/WEB-INF/block.xml for an 
example). One can use the attribute exported="false" for private 
components. The reason for not using the component section of the 
sitemap for declaring the components that the block exports is that 
blocks doesn't have to contain a sitemap, some are "component only" blocks.

As the "sitemap components" of a block in most cases also should be 
exported, so that they can be used in other blocks, the components in 
the webapp sample sitemap and in WEB-INF/sitemap-additions also need to 
be included from the repective block.xml. As it is a waste of resources 
to declare them again in the container of the main sitemap of the blocks 
it means that I want to move all components of the main sitemap in the 
sample webapp and all components inWEB-INF/sitemap-additions to the 
respective WEB-INF/xconf. Is this OK, or are there any problems? If it 
is OK, I do it ASAP for the webapp samples.

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Another question is about ECM++ - OSGi service bridge. The idea with the 
bridge, as you might remeber, is that the the block has an ECM container 
that exports its components as OSGi services (see 
o.a.c.core.osgi.OSGiCoreServiceManager). This container has a parent 
container (o.a.c.core.osgi.OSGiServiceManager), that translates ECM 
lookups for components not defined in the block to OSGi service lookups 
that will get the components from another block.

The OSGi services must be singletons, so ThreadSafe components can be 
exported and thanks to Carstens poolable proxy 
(o.a.c.core.container.handler.PoolableComponentHandler) also Poolable 
can be exported, but SingleThreadedComponents are not singltons and 
cannot be exported yet. For the components in cocoon-core.xconf all 
components could be exported except for FOM_JavaScriptInterpreter, the 
output modules and the PartSourceFactory, who are SingleThreaded.

The question is how to solve it. Some of the SingleThreaded could 
probably be made ThreadSafe or Poolable, for the rest we could maybe 
have some kind of proxy. Ideas?

/Daniel