On 25/06/2012 18:03, Joe Wang wrote:
:
I'm not sure about catching and ignoring the
ServiceConfigurationError (or "keep on trucking" as Paul termed it in
one of the replies). The existing specification reads " Any Exception
thrown during the instantiation process is wrapped as a
<something>ConfigurationException" so this seems a significant change
to me.
Indeed, that would be a significant change. I think I said I'm not
going to fix 6975142, or make it work for jdk7 and older in that
matter, but then I still allowed that to dictate the JavaDoc. I guess
it's in my mind for too long, or it's because the whole ServiceLoader
thing was actually started when I looked at old bugs and found 6975142 :)
6975142 seems to be a case of someone trying to use two versions of the
JAXP API in the same application. That's a bit different to having
different service provider implementations installed. For now I would
suggest focusing on the latter. Jigsaw aside, I think it's it would be
good for JAXP to be using ServiceLoader anyway.
-Alan.
