Hi. I can imagine, dear core-libs members, that you are all busy with your jobs, however at least give me hope: Can I get my patch into the OpenJDK in reasonable timeframe or not?
Thanks in advance for your reply. -jst Jaroslav Tulach wrote: > Proposal: Enhance ServiceLoader to understand factory methods > > Justification: A lot of our services in NetBeans are final classes. Still, > we > would like to use the META-INF/services registration to register their > providers. Currently this does not work, we either need to unfinalize the > classes (which restricts future evolution options) or use different ways > of registering the providers. We propose simple and backward compatible > extension to current ServiceLoader registration scheme. If accepted, > NetBeans'll eliminate our non-standard registration methods, while keeping > benefits of final classes. Moreover the same techniques will be available > to any JavaSE project. > > Risks: API change includes simple, compatible extension. New code is able > to accept old registrations. Old code (JDK6) will generate > ServiceConfigurationError in case of seeing new registration, however. > > Test: I have found tests in test/java/util/ServiceLoader/ directory and > I've modified them to verify also our new usecase. All of them are > passing, if I run them by running ./basic.sh script - I am not sure if > that is the right way of running your tests. > > I am attaching my current patch. Let me know what shall I change to allow > this > to be integrated to OpenJDK7. Thanks a lot. > > Jaroslav Tulach > NetBeans Platform Architect
