Hi Scott,
There are two outstanding OASIS issues regarding this problem. Basically, the spec does not say what should happen but it should. The relevant issues are: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/JAVA-65 There is no lifecycle defined for SCA Components http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/JAVA-53 What happens if init() throws a runtime exception JAVA-65 provides a proposal that will define the lifecycle for SCA Components and explicitly details what to do with exceptions. The proposal has not yet been accepted so may well be tweaked before it is included in the specification. Thanks, Mark _____ From: Scott Kurz [mailto:scottk...@gmail.com] Sent: 16 February 2009 23:54 To: dev@tuscany.apache.org Subject: What to do with instance when RuntimeException thrown from @Init? I feel like I remember seeing this conversation before but can't find it in my mail search. Just noticing that if we throw a RuntimeException from an @Init method in a composite-scoped component ... then the instance gets used anyway even though it may have failed to initialize. Was thinking it would be a useful service for the container to provide to discard the instance, under the assumption that the next time the service is invoked, we'll retry the instance creation, since maybe later the @Init will complete successfully? Don't see anything in a very quick scan of the specs but I didn't look thoroughly. Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Scott
