On Aug 14, 2014, at 16:03, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> Or writing the class name in a services file automatically exports it as a >> service? >> >> Now my preferred order will be >> >> if (loadProviderFromProperty()) >> return provider; >> if (loadProviderAsInstalledService()) >> return provider; >> if (loadProviderAsService()) >> return provider; >> > Looking at JDK-8038089 again then I'm not sure why loadProviderFromProperty > is here. If you are limiting this to just implementations of the Kerberos > cipher suites and you only want to use service providers that are in the JDK > image then ServiceLoader.loadInstalled should be sufficient.
That's just a general preferred order. Here I define no property and do not expect an application providing an impl so yes loadProviderAsInstalledService is enough. --Max > > -Alan
