RFR: 8332086: Remove the usage of ServiceLoader in j.u.r.RandomGeneratorFactory [v5]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Thu, 16 May 2024 13:23:14 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulietti at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Yes, I thought about this the other day but decided for a bit more conservative approach, relying on the annotation.
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>> But I agree that, since the meta-information now resides in `RandomGeneratorProperties`, we might "migrate" the deprecation status here as well.
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> Since the legacy generators are public classes, they can be publicly deprecated, so in the last commit the `DEPRECATED` bit for them still relies on the annotation, which IMO is the authoritative "source of truth".
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> For the 10 other algorithms, which are accessible only via `RandomFactoryGenerator`, we can rely on the info in `RandomProperties`.

The deprecation process of algorithms is unclear - whether it should be tied with the `@Deprecation` of a class that provides that algorithm. We will have more clarity if/when we do deprecate these algorithms. The specification in its current form doesn't tie it to the `@Deprecation` annotation, which is a good thing. So your proposed change in this PR looks fine to me, since it will still allow us to move away from the `@Deprecated` annotation check if we wanted to, in a subsequent release/change.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19212#discussion_r1605058285