Staying from the built-in Service Loader is a recipe for even more custom code and complications. I say we stick with the built-in Service Loader.
Gary On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 5:01 PM Piotr P. Karwasz <piotr.karw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 at 22:49, Matt Sicker <m...@musigma.org> wrote: > > So now we come to your question about a factories file. That’s an > > interesting idea, though it’s extremely similar to what we’re doing here > > with ServiceLoader (though the split between META-INF/services/ files and > > module-info.java provides/uses entries is confusing). Moving away from > > ServiceLoader to a custom mechanism might be more flexible, though I’m not > > very knowledgeable about how Java modules work with them. > > I think that `ServiceLoader` is the only standard feature that is > supported by both OSGi and JPMS. If we move away from it, we'll need > some custom code to support it (or `opens`, etc). I wouldn't go that > way. > > Piotr
