Maintenance Reviews was: [PATCH] Enhance ServiceLoader to understand factory methods

[Jaroslav Tulach]

Thanks for the clarification, Mark. I've heard about some umbrella JSR for 
each release of the JDK before and I was hoping that my proposed change
could be covered as part of it. Thanks for confirming that such aggregation
is possible.

> With regard to this particular proposal, as the original author of ...

OK, I can promise that I will work hard on polishing my proposal. I can 
improve the code, I can add more documentation, I can write more tests, 
change the new API semantics, etc. I just need a sponsor to tell me what to 
change and where and then take and apply my final patch.

Thanks in advance for your help.
-jst

Dne Friday 17 October 2008 06:24:13 Mark Reinhold napsal(a):
> > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:56:13 +1000
> > From: david.holmes at sun.com
> >
> > If this is a modification to the API not just a patch for the
> > implementation then the short answer is No.
>
> Well, not exactly.
>
> >                                           API changes have to be made
> > via a JSR.
>
> ... or in a Maintenance Review of an existing JSR.
>
> Small API revisions and additions do not require their own JSR; that
> would be ridiculously inefficient.  Instead we roll them up into a
> series of Maintenance Reviews of the previous Platform JSR [1].
>
> There have already been many small API changes in the JDK 7 codebase.
> Suggested patches for further such changes are welcome, and will be
> discussed and judged on their own technical merit.  All implemented
> changes will, in due course, be aggregated into an appropriate JCP
> Maintenance Review.
>
> With regard to this particular proposal, as the original author of
> the class in question I suppose I should have an opinion about it,
> but that's a topic for a different message.
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1]
>
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mreinhold/archive/2006/03/mustang_mainten.html