Paul Smith wrote: > At the moment, Chainsaw has it's own hard-coded > registry of 'potential' Receivers that are known, and checks which ones > can be loaded. Ideally we would replace that with the standard JAR > service provider stuff so any custom Receivers could be placed in the > Plugin directory and be dynamically discovered (sounding a lot like OSGI > isn't it. Really starting to think about Chainsaw 3 now.)
Something one step less than OSGi would be the JDK 1.6+ ServiceLoader or JDK 1.5+ OpenIDE Lookup functionality (though I think there's even an older version that is JDK 1.4+). Here's an interesting article that describes both... http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/extensible/ Jake --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
