Re: ServiceFactory

[Michael Koch]

Am Montag, 22. März 2004 10:00 schrieb Sascha Brawer:
> Sascha Brawer <address@hidden> wrote on Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:05:55 
+0100:
> > [loading service providers from "META-INF/services/*" in external
> > JARs] 2. Which namespace?
> >3. The unit tests (see attached ForMauve.tar.gz) run checks on
> >gnu.classpath.ServiceFactory. This seems a bit unclean, since Mauve
> > was once meant to be independent of Classpath. A possibility would
> > be to change the tests so that they check the public API
> >javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry.lookupProviders
>
> Since there seem to be no objects with respect to the gnu.classpath
> namespace, I'll commit gnu.classpath.ServiceFactory this Wednesday.

Tom said on IRC that there was never talked about this yet.

> The Mauve tests, which I'll also commit on Wednesday, will run checks
> on the public API javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry.lookupProviders,
> not on something specific to Classpath. Thus, I'll also commit a
> mostly stubbed javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry, whose only
> implemented method will be lookupProviders.
>
> Please tell me by Tuesday in case you don't agree.

Perhaps you should give us all some more time until Tom responded.

Personally I think its bad because Mauve has a more general target (in 
principle).


Michael