Class rather than ROLE?

[Marcus Crafter]

Hi All,

Hope all is well!

One questions - I think I remember reading about this a while back on the 
lists but some quick searches couldn't find it.

Our current ROLE convention is to name the class file to be looked up
using the following style:

interface Service {
        String ROLE = Service.class.getName();

        // methods
}

Service s = (Service) m_manager.lookup(Service.ROLE);

Since ROLE is the classes FQN, why not just specify the Class object itself
like:

interface Service {
        // methods
}

Service s = (Service) m_manager.lookup(Service.class);

I know this discussion is not new - just wondering what the advantage is
with the first approach?

Cheers,

Marcus

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