Dependee Component Expansion

A dependee-component specifies the component on which the current component depends as a result of a dependency created by a <createDependency> step. dependee-component has the component resolution semantics of the <dependee> installed component targeter. See Installed Component Targeters in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 XML Schema Reference Guide.

dependee-component has the following syntax:

dependee:dependency-name

dependency-name is the name of a dependency that is created by the current component.

dependee-component can only be used as a primary-component when the external component substitution reference appears in a component. When used as a primary-component, it cannot be used as the default value of a component variable or an override variable setting. This is because the dependency will not yet have been created when the variable is evaluated.