Sandro Martini created PIVOT-962: ------------------------------------ Summary: Load of classes using a standard discovery method across different projects/jars Key: PIVOT-962 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-962 Project: Pivot Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Sandro Martini Assignee: Sandro Martini Fix For: 2.1
Implement a simple but standardized way, for example using Java ServiceLoader (simple to use but with little customizations) to load all classes in CLASSPATH that implements/extends a given class. Note that a great feature (of ServiceLoader) is that all manifest files with the given name are loaded, even in different projects or jars (available in classpath); could be useful to simplify integration of customizations/extensions. This could be useful for example to discover and load all Components found in CLASSPATH, from the Skin (maybe with a dedicated implementation of loaders). Here you can find a sample version of the same concepts, but more general (and for Plugins): https://github.com/smartiniOnGitHub/dynamic-loaders Some discussion here: http://apache-pivot-developers.417237.n3.nabble.com/Loading-of-classes-via-Service-Provider-td4026887.html -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)