Hi, On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Tobias Bocanegra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Tobias Bocanegra <[email protected]> wrote: >>> in case of the LoginModules, that's not possible. >> >> But accessing the whiteboard is? I don't see what's special about the >> whiteboard, it's just a service dependency like any other. > > No, it's a piece of infrastructure, and part of the Oak SPI. I think > that components should be able to rely on a system wide Whiteboard if > they want. > Also, the LoginModules are not 'services' in that sense. they get > instantiated by JAAS and can only communicate via Callbacks with the > login context.
The thing I don't understand here is why you'd be able to access the Whiteboard instance, but not some other service. If it's "not possible" to access a reference to a normal service, how would it be possible to access a reference to the Whiteboard? BR, Jukka Zitting
