理解SCA Assembly 规范中的reference 和 target 属性

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1) target 属性
a)一个SCA中的service可表示一个业务功能，该功能由component提供。比如，一个书店提供卖书的服务。
b)一个SCA中的reference表示某个component所需要使用的业务功能。比如，书店需要用到购物车和目录。
1) @target

a) An SCA service represents a business function that a component provides,
for example, a book store selling books.
b) An SCA reference represents a business function that a component
consumes, for example, book store needs to use shopping cart and catalog.

The 'target' attribute of <reference> points to an SCA service that can
provide the business function required by the reference. For example, if the
BookStore component has a catalog reference as follows:

<component name="BookStoreComponent">
<reference name="catalog" target="CatalogComponent/Catalog"/>
</component>

<component name="CatalogComponent">
...
</component>

The @target says CatalogComponent's Catalog service is the provider for
catalog reference. If you change it to "NewCatalogComponent/Catalog", you
basically switch to a new service provider: NewCatalogComponent's Catalog
service.

2) @promote

In SCA, a pre-assembled composite can be reused as a building block for
compositions. It's achieved by <implementation.composite>. For example, the
Catalog service itself can be developed as a SCA composite. Inside the
Catalog composite, there could be a few java components.

<component name="CatalogComponent>
<implementation.composite composite="ns1:CatalogComposite"/>
...
</component>

Now the question is what services/references in the CatalogComposite will be
made public for CatalogComponent. Service/Reference promotion is introduced
for this purpose.

For example,

<composite name="CatalogComposite">
<service name="Catalog"
promote="InternalCatalogComponent/InternalCatalog">
...
</service>

<reference name="parnterCatalog"
promote="InternalCatalogComponent/partnerCatalog">
...
</reference>

<component name="InternalCatalogComponent>
...
</component>
</composite>

The @promote for the <service> says if CatalogComposite is used as a
component for assembly, there is a service named Catalog that makes the
InternalCatalogComponent's InternalCatalog service public. As a result, the
CatalogComponent has a public Catalog service that can be wired to.

The @promote for the <reference> says if CatalogComposite is used as a
component for assembly, there is a reference named partnerCatalog that makes
the InternalCatalogComponent's partnerCatalog reference public. As a result,
the CatalogComponent has a public partnerCatalog reference and a service
provider can be defined for this reference.