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

[Alan Bateman]

On 25/06/2012 18:03, Joe Wang wrote:
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> :
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>> I'm not sure about catching and ignoring the 
>> ServiceConfigurationError (or "keep on trucking" as Paul termed it in 
>> one of the replies). The existing specification reads " Any Exception 
>> thrown during the instantiation process is wrapped as a 
>> <something>ConfigurationException" so this seems a significant change 
>> to me.
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> Indeed, that would be a significant change. I think I said I'm not 
> going to fix 6975142, or make it work for jdk7 and older in that 
> matter, but then I still allowed that to dictate the JavaDoc. I guess 
> it's in my mind for too long, or it's because the whole ServiceLoader 
> thing was actually started when I looked at old bugs and found 6975142 :)
6975142 seems to be a case of someone trying to use two versions of the 
JAXP API in the same application. That's a bit different to having 
different service provider implementations installed. For now I would 
suggest focusing on the latter. Jigsaw aside, I think it's it would be 
good for JAXP to be using ServiceLoader anyway.

-Alan.