RFR 8068938: javax.script package description should specify use of ServiceLoader

Sundararajan Athijegannathan sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com
Mon Jan 11 14:56:00 UTC 2016


Incorporated the changes suggested. Updated webrev is @ 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sundar/8068938/webrev.01/

Thanks,
-Sundar

On 1/11/2016 2:26 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> On 11/01/2016 05:03, Sundararajan Athijegannathan wrote:
>> Please review http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sundar/8068938/webrev.00/ 
>> for https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8068938
>>
>> This is a doc-only change to mention that ScriptEngineFactory 
>> instances are loaded using java.util.ServiceLoader API and avoid 
>> wording on META-INF/services [ which is just one impl. mechanism used 
>> by ServiceLoader ]. This will allow the ScriptEngineFactory 
>> implementations to be deployed as modules without the service 
>> configuration file.
> The original wording has "current ClassLoader" which isn't very clear, 
> does it mean the caller's class loader or the TCCL? The updated 
> wording removes this but leaves it ambiguous as to how 
> ScriptEngineFactory providers are located. Can it reference someone 
> where in the javax.script javadoc where this is more clearly specified?
>
> <code>ScriptEngineFactories</code>, might be better as {@code 
> ScriptEngineFactory} instances.
>
> I would be good to keep the line length somewhat consistent with the 
> rest of the class description. Having have one >100 char line will 
> also be annoying for future side-by-side diffs.
>
> I assume this can go into jdk9/dev, no need for it to go into 
> jigsaw/jake.
>
> -Alan.
>
>
>




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