On Feb 11, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > It was never meant to be used by anything outside of the JDK and there has > been a standard API (java.util.ServiceLoader) since JDK 6 (released in 2006). >
Scrub it! AFAICT it is not widely used (looking at the use of s.m.Service static methods on grep code there are only a handful of dependent artifacts). And the upgrade is quite easy. Paul.