Re: Description Component

Jack,

You can use a Description component designator to represent the component 
model instance you get by starting from some WSDL document and pulling in 
other components via import and include. Conversely, if you are given a 
Description component designator then you can treat the URI as the 
namespace of the root WSDL document, and serialize the component model 
instance back out starting from there.

Arthur Ryman,
IBM Software Group, Rational Division

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Jacek Kopecky <jacek.kopecky@deri.org> 
09/27/2005 11:01 AM

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Re: Description Component






Hi Arthur,

I see now that my problem with a component belonging to multiple
Descriptions is not necessarily a problem. We can easily add the
Description component to the model.

On the other hand - what exactly can you use Description for? You see
some kind of context implied in the Description component, some kind of
relationship between the components belonging to the same Description.
What is that relationship and what would you use it for?

Best regards,

Jacek


On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:18 -0400, Arthur Ryman wrote:
> 
> At the F2F today, Jack said that the Description component was not
> important for the RDF mapping. 
> 
> I think the Description component is important because it acts as a
> container for top level components. It provides a context. A top level
> component might be a member of many Description components, e.g. if it
> gets imported in many contexts. The Description component itself
> models a component model instance in that it represents a set of
> related components. 
> 
> Arthur Ryman,
> IBM Software Group, Rational Division
> 
> blog: http://ryman.eclipsedevelopersjournal.com/
> phone: +1-905-413-3077, TL 969-3077
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