On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Julian Reschke <[email protected]> wrote: >> Proposal: rename to "locator". > > Alternative proposal: Get rid of MicroKernelFactory entirely. > > Components that need to instantiate a MK implementation should > directly use the appropriate constructor or other > implementation-specific instantiation mechanism. That way whoever > starts the repository or the MK instance is clearly in charge of also > shutting it down when appropriate. The current approach with the MKF > and MK.dispose() doesn't properly address that issue. > > URL-based access or other lookups should IMHO only be used for cases > where the repository has already been initialized and only a reference > to it is needed. For such cases we should use JNDI, OSGi service > references, or other existing mechanisms instead of a custom MKF > interface. > > As an example of using such a solution, see the new > AbstractMicroKernelIT class in oak-it-mk and the standard Java service > provider mechanism it leverages.
+1 for jukka's proposal cheers stefan > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting
