Stephen wrote: > If the above does not make a lot of sense - please > yell out - this is a > question that is getting into one of the more > obscure areas of the > Merlin system.
Thanks Stephen for your reply. And I'm yelling at the top of my voice cause I don't know even know what to ask now. When u say > You can access another component (the implementation > class) if (a) the You mean another component in another container, right ?? or what. And what next ? Thanks Sonu Vijay --- Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sonu Vijay wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > There has been lots of very useful discussion abt > this > > topic but I got a question. On the merlin webpage > > http://avalon.apache.org/merlin/index.html > > > > the diagram shows the Merlin Service Manager > > interacting with many containers with several > > components under the containers. > > > > So I want to know, is communication between > components > > running in seperate containers: > > > > a)not allowed cause of COP design principals. > > b)not recommended cause of COP design principals > > c)not possible in Avalon ( or Merlin specificly ) > in > > its persent form due to lack of such > functionality. > > You can access another component (the implementation > class) if (a) the > component in question declares that it should not be > proxied, and (b) > the component directive for the consumer explicitly > identifies the > source component as the component to be supplied > (using a > <dependency><source> statement in the block), and > all component > implementation classes are exposed in a classloader > shared by both > consumer and provider. > > For a service (restricted view of a component) the > above statement holds > except that the view of the component is restricted > to the interface > defined by the service, and the classes that must be > shared are > restricted to those classes exposed by the service > interface. > > If the above does not make a lot of sense - please > yell out - this is a > question that is getting into one of the more > obscure areas of the > Merlin system. > > Stephen. > > -- > > |------------------------------------------------| > | Magic by Merlin | > | Production by Avalon | > | | > | http://avalon.apache.org/merlin | > | http://dpml.net/merlin/distributions/latest | > |------------------------------------------------| > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
