Hi, I have been working with Raymond to get the component properties support up in Java SCA. i.e. loading of property default values specified in componentType definition and loading of overiding values for these properties in the component defn. (scdl).
The crux of the behaviour here lies in loading the values (from componentType / scdl) in a Document Object and then transforming it to a form that can be consumed by the implementation containers. i.e. tranforming XML Document to Java object for Java Container, to Javascript Object for JS container and so on. With a recent update, Java SCA is now enabled to handle 'simple' properties i.e. properties who xml type has a well know mapping to a Java Type - thanks to the databinding framework done by Raymond. Enhancing this to support complex / user-defined types has some issues some of which are: - - capturing the schema location for these types - implementing the databinding and transformers to transform xml data to appropriate java or javascript or groovy or ruby types - modifying the implementation builders to be able to specify the databinding that the component loaders must use for property transformations These and maybe a few more hidden ones are going to take a few iterations to fix. Given the current situation of having to make the M2 release asap I'd like to know the community's opinion if having support for 'complex properites in M2' is critical? Thanks. - Venkat
