Perhaps I misunderstand, but what's wrong with javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry? It's been there since 1.4 and although oddly packaged, always served my need prior to the slightly nicer ServiceLoader encapsulation.
/Casper On 10 Aug., 12:53, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm referring to ServiceLoader, which is an abstraction layer so you > don't have to hunt for META-INF/services files via the > ClassLoader.getResources() mechanism. That bit is 1.6 only, but you > can replicate it easily by using ClassLoader.getResources, or just > ripping the code right out of openjdk6. > > On Aug 9, 5:38 pm, Jess Holle <je...@ptc.com> wrote: > > > Which mechanism is this exactly? > > > I'm used to using META-INF/services entries for my own SPIs as needed > > irrespective of JDK level. Are you referring to the locale, etc, SPI > > lookup classes in 1.6? Or something more general that I'm missing? > > > [I'm only using Java 6 these days apart from some old release support > > work, so I want to know if I'm overlooking something I should be > > leveraging.] > > > -- > > Jess Holle > > > Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > > > Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > > > >> Having said that, project lombok runs in 1.5 and 1.6, and I even > > >> replicated the SPI service loader mechanism which is 1.6 only to avoid > > >> a 1.6 dependency, because of that eclipse issue. > > > > Indeed that feature is the one that is most likely missed in Java 5 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
