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Re: [equinox-dev] DS optional cardinality question

Yes. If you want to delay activating the listener component until they are 
actually needed, then you need to use the lookup strategy. 

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I think this is working as designed.  Declarative Services will call the 
bind method on Manager before it calls Manager's activate Method.  It does 
not matter that the reference is optional.  The "optional" setting only 
controls whether the Manager will be activated or not - it has no bearing 
on the lifecycle of Listener1 or Listener2. 

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Roy

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I have a simple collaborator pattern where a Manager component has a 
optional multiple reference to several Listener services as shown below:

<component 
name="Manager" immediate="true">
<implementation class="com.ibm.listener.Manager"/>
<reference
name="Listener"
interface="com.ibm.listener.Listener"
cardinality="0..n"
policy="dynamic"
bind="addListener"
unbind="removeListener"
/>
</component>

<component 
name="Listener1">
<implementation class="com.ibm.listener.Listener1"/>
<service>
<provide interface="com.ibm.listener.Listener"/>
</service>
</component>

<component 
name="Listener2">
<implementation class="com.ibm.listener.Listener2"/>
<service>
<provide interface="com.ibm.listener.Listener"/>
</service>
</component>

Components Listener1 and Listener2 are not immediate components, where as 
the Manager component is. I would think that DS will activate Manager 
component without having to activate Listener1 or Listener 2 as they are 
not immediate components, and they are not mandatory for Manager (0..n 
cardinality). However, when I ran this example (with M5 bundles), both 
Listener 1 and Listener 2 were activated and injected into Manager 
component. Could this be a bug ?

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