Isn't this easily handed by a little helper class?
Kind regards,
Peter Kriens
On 14 jan 2011, at 11:27, Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we're using declarative services a lot - it's usually sufficient and
> works pretty well :)
>
> The only drawback we're facing - and I've heard this from others as well
> - is the lack of proper support for references and the service ranking
> property: once a reference is bound it is not updated if a new component
> providing the same service but with a higher service ranking arrives.
> So, it gets more unpredictable and depends on the startup order of
> services to what service such a reference is bound.
> In these cases, you can't use DS.
>
> It would be great, to have a way to exactly define a reference that is
> always bound to the service with the highest ranking. To be compatible
> this has to be something new as we shouldn't change the current
> behaviour. So maybe adding a new optional property to the reference tag
> in the XML specifying if a rebound should happen due to service ranking
> or something along these lines.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Regards
> Carsten
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