Thomas Watson wrote:
Here are a couple of reasons a Framework may want to include the
ServiceTracker:
1) The Framework uses the ServiceTracker to implement things like
the URL Handlers Service Specification. The Framework could have only
used ServiceTracker internally and not exported it for others to use.
Felix doesn't use ServiceTracker.
2) Performance enhancements can be made to ServiceTracker to
use Framework specific features. In this case the version
of ServiceTracker exported by the Framework should be used for
performance reasons.
Agreed.
3) Other frameworks do it, so it effectively becomes the defacto
standard way of doing it.
:-)
-> richard
Tom
"Richard S. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/22/2007 07:22:32 AM:
Should Felix start including ServiceTracker in the framework JAR file?
Up until now, it has never been included because the framework doesn't
use it, so it is just extra cruft and can easily be downloaded
separately. However, it appears that other frameworks make it available
by default.
Thoughts?
-> richard
