Hi,
On 12/28/2012 01:11 PM, Sivakumar Thyagarajan wrote:
>> Those are different, those are for development. Those are a priority for
>> the spec, and must be supported.
>
> You are right that there is a difference between the Chapter 18 EoD
> annotations (which are used by the RA developer to describe their
> resource adapter artifacts) and the proposed resource definition
> annotations (which are used by an application component developer to
> define a resource based on the RA).
>
> The former needs to be supported by a standalone connector container.
> Whereas in the latter case, if the standalone connector container
> supports an application component container that supports the definition
> of these resource definition annotations, only then must the standalone
> connector container support these annotations in the context of that
> application component. So, I agree that the standalone connector
> container environment section(3.5) must not generally mandate the
> support for these annotations. I will come up with verbiage which
> describes this and share it for review.
We should be careful with the wording, maybe
"
This specification does not define new application components or require
any particular existing application component to be supported in the
standalone connector container environment.
The deployment annotations described in this specification may not be
supported by the standalone connector container implementation even if
the environment includes any application components.
"
E.g. just including a web container with the standalone environment
doesn't necessary trigger support for the annotations.
Best regards,
Jesper