2014/8/13 7:20 -0700, alan.bate...@oracle.com: > The usual thing is to just have a default implementation that is used > when ServiceLoader doesn't locate a useful provider. You'll find many > examples of this in the JDK. In those cases then the default is not > listed in a services configuration file. From what you describe then > this may be what you want too. > > ServiceLoader does not have a way to configure a preferred provider so > this is one reason why you'll see places where a system property can be > used to configured the preferred implementation.
Another alternative is to use the ServiceLoader::loadInstalled method, which will ignore providers on the application class path. - Mark
