Nathan, It's great to hear that, thank you!
I wonder if this implementation would only be available for Java 6 version. Would it be possible to have that functionality usable by Java 5 branch also (by wrapping to sun.misc.Service, at least)?.. Vasily -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nathan Beyer Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 7:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [classlib] Support for sun.misc.Service ? Yeah, I do have some code for the Java 6 ServiceLoader. I'm waiting for the M2 stuff to calm down and then I can put something into the repo and have it go a few rounds of review. -Nathan On 6/25/07, Tony Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Nathan is working on the ServiceLoader recently. If it is > widely used I suggest to maintain a copy in suncompat and wrap it. > > On 6/26/07, Zakharov, Vasily M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've filed jira HARMONY-4280 for this issue, and attached a simple > > patch. > > > > Does anybody have any opinions on how should we resolve it? > > > > Vasily > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Zakharov, Vasily M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 3:41 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [classlib] Support for sun.misc.Service ? > > > > Hi, all, > > > > While trying to run NetBeans with NetBeans Profiler on Harmony I've > > found out that it produces a lot of errors, most of which are caused by > > sun.misc.Service class is absent. The general idea for this class can be > > obtained from [1] - look for Service.providers call. I'm not sure if > > Harmony has an equivalent for that class, but it probably should - > > people on the net (Google) say that the class is rather widely used and > > that it should become a part of public API in future, and it probably > > would [2]. Moreover, it seems to be already replaced with > > java.util.ServiceLoader [3] in Java 6. So, we have the following > > questions to answer: > > > > 1. Does Harmony have a functional equivalent for sun.misc.Service class? > > > > 2. If it doesn't, than should we provide that equivalent? > > > > 3. Shouldn't we add a wrapper for that functionality ot at least a dummy > > stub for sun.misc.Service to Suncompat module to avoid problems with > > applications that address it? > > > > [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jar/jar.html > > [2] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4640520 > > [3] http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/ServiceLoader.html > > > > Vasily Zakharov > > Intel ESSD > > > > > -- > Tony Wu > China Software Development Lab, IBM >
