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definitions.xml

Section 1.8 describes the definitions.xml file as holding all of the artifacts that are useful for configuring an SCA domain but that are not specific to a particular composite or component. It goes on to say that "All of these artifacts within and SCA Domain are defined in a global, SCA Domain-wide file named definitions.xml". To achieve our extensibility goals we, in Tuscany, consider the SCA Domain wide definitions.xml file to be a logical concept that is constructed at runtime from the contents of definitions.xml files provided in contributions and in Tuscany extensions.

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