On 23 August 2012 20:30, Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it> wrote: > it would be nice to have an SPI for that too, maybe have the factory lookup in > META-INF/services and look up the class names, but not going through the > official SPI where you actually get a single instance of the class, just do > something > that looks like SPI but just fetches class names. Or have something scanning > the > classpath in a particular package looking for the annotations, just like > Hibernate does. > Anyways, just an idea
I like the sound of this idea very much. For a work project that involves something a little bit similar to processes, I've been experimenting with the NetBeans Lookup (which can be used outside of NetBeans as just another maven dependency) to scan the classpath for available implementations. You can ask the NB Lookup to return a list of Classes rather than instances, and then do runtime annotation processing on the chosen class. However it's done, it would indeed be great to have a plug-in approach rather than being forced to hack factories. Michael PS. many thanks Justin for all the work ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
