RFR [JDK8]: 7169894: JAXP Plugability Layer: using service loader

[Paul Sandoz]

On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:

> On 21/06/2012 08:55, Joe Wang wrote:
>> :
>> webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~joehw/jdk8/7169894/webrev/
> It's great to get this work started.
> 
> The javadoc changes look okay to me and fine for this change. However there are a few areas that could be made clearer, like specifying the behavior for the case that is error encountered locating the providers. Also it does not specific which class loader is used.
> 
> On the implementation changes then I agree with Paul's comment that there is a lot of duplication. I realize you have inherited some technical debt but now seems a good opportunity to clean this up instead of changing essentially the same code in lots of places.
> 
> I don't understand the need for the Class.forName in findServiceProvider as I thought this method should just use ServiceLoader.
> 

Good catch, one would expect the service interfaces to be visible.


> I see Paul also suggested that the default/fallback implementation not be registered but an important need here is that the JAXP module shouldn't need to include all of Xerces and Xalan. I think it would be cleaner to use services mechanism rather than using an optional dependency.
> 

Ah! I incorrectly thought a default service provider class would always be present.

Paul.