Hi Richard, I have renamed the subject so we can discuss issues around the service-provider strawman in its own thread.
Richard S. Hall wrote:
Hello Stanley, ... I guess the addition of service-related concepts into the module layer would be one example of feature creep for me. While I think it makes perfect sense to figure out how the Service Loader stuff will work on top of the module layer, pushing Service Loader concepts down into the module layer doesn't make any sense to me at all. It should be sufficient for the Service Loader to probe the installed modules and perhaps examine module metadata to determine if a module provides a service or not. From there, the Service Loader can create module instances and provider instances as necessary. If this is not possible in our current constructs, then we should address these shortcomings rather than adding higher layer concepts into the module layer. -> richard
The current service provider strawman suggests a few changes in ModuleDefinition/Query classes, and you basically suggest that these changes could be eliminated if we have a more generic way to express services and service-providers in the module metadata and a generic way to examine the information from the module metadata, all without service-related APIs in the module layer. I think what you suggested makes sense, and I will look into this. - Stanley
