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Internally, the Application objects would dispatch messages to another set of lower-level auto-wired components that perform work for the SP agents. Agents would map requests to Applications in some fashion similarly to today, create a message targeted for that Application, and then embed the additional message inputs in a TBD manner yet to be finalized (probably currently an embedded “operation” “op” member).
To achieve the separation that the “containment” relationship provides now between Applications and components like metadata and attribute handling, the various reloadable services for these functions would be injected into the Application objects with Spring. Applicatons would then be free to reuse (or not) common instances/configurations of these services as required.
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