JAXP default implementation and JDK-8152063

[David M. Lloyd]

On 03/24/2016 11:26 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> On 24/03/2016 16:09, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> :
>>
>> If the Layer of the module of the class calling the
>> newInstance/newFactory/etc. method could somehow be consulted in
>> service resolution decisions, that would definitely solve the problem
>> because our container Layers could refer to the default implementation
>> we provide, unless the TCCL overrides it.  This would in fact be an
>> ideal solution since we could throw away this horrible proxy layer.
> There is a new ServiceLoader.load method that uses a Layer as context so
> that you can iterate over the service providers in a module layer and
> its parents. It is intended for cases like this. JAXP is not using this
> yet but it could do, we even have an issue tracking an investigation
> into that.

Great!  Thanks for the info - needless to say, this would solve many 
problems for us.

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- DML