On Aug 13, 2014, at 23:31, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > 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.
Great, this works for me. But why does it need to be called in a doPrivileged() block? Isn't it only about JDK-internal classes/resources? Thanks Max > > - Mark
