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Chad then noted some recent IdPv3 commits that split up the notion of a "service" as it was present in IdPv2 in to two things. The notion of a "component" that carried an unique ID and could be validated. Some examples would be the attribute resolver, all its plugins, the relying party configuration manager, and all the profile handlers. All existing services will implement this interface. This removes any hard dependency on Spring (or any other notion of how to configure the component). Extending component will be the notion of a service. The service will embody the idea of configuring a set of components. Each component that would be turned in to a service would be wrapped in a service proxy. This will be explained further in the design documentation Chad is preparing to write.