Hi Richard,
Richard S. Hall wrote:
Hey Stanley,
...
To me, this sounds like what we call the "extender model" for the OSGi
framework. The way it works is that bundles that want to participate in
certain scenarios simply include some metadata inside of themselves,
then some infrastructure can probe for this metadata and automatically
do work on their behalf. This is how Declarative Services works in the
R4 spec and also how Spring-OSGi works...it is becoming a very common
model.
The benefit of this approach is that it doesn't push upper layer
concepts down into the modularity layer and keeps it simple. Off the top
of my head, I don't see a reason why the Service Loader couldn't use a
similar approach.
-> richard
Thanks. I will certainly check it out to see if this approach is feasible.
- Stanley
