BackEnd Service Provider.

[Doug Simon]

Hi Gary,

Have you tried creating a module for your service? I think that’s required as of JDK 9.

I suggest opening a PR on https://github.com/oracle/graal so we can have a more concrete discussion.

-Doug

> On 20 Apr 2020, at 11:17, Gary Frost <frost.gary at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I feel I am missing something obvious ;)
> 
> I am working (well playing actually) with Graal and JDK13 and have built my
> own implementation of org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.HotSpotBackendFactory to
> inject some custom code into generated x86.  Very cool.
> 
> If I hack the org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.CompilerConfigurationFactory
> class (from JDK13 source) I can instantiate  my factory directly, and I see
> my modified code.
> 
> But of course I want to able to build against and use use my factory using
> a clean opendjdk JDK13 binary distribution.
> 
> It looks like the
> class org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.CompilerConfigurationFactory is setup to
> allow me to offer my factory as a 'service provider' which the
> CompilerConfigurationFactory accesses via this call
>           GraalServices.load(HotSpotBackendFactory.class)
> but nothing I try works.
> 
> It looks like I need to provide a module-info.java class, but of course I
> only want my one service to override the default.
> 
> Any suggestions/help oir pointers to docs would be appreciated.
> 
> Gary