RFR: 8167180: [JVMCI] Exported elements referring to inaccessible types in jdk.vm.ci

[Alan Bateman]

On 11/10/2016 21:44, Doug Simon wrote:

>> On 11 Oct 2016, at 22:40, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 11, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Another alternative name is JVMCIServiceLocator:
>>>
>>> /**
>>> * Service-provider class for the runtime to locate providers of JVMCI services where the latter are
>>> * not in packages exported by the JVMCI module. As part of instantiating
>>> * {@link JVMCIServiceLocator}, all JVMCI packages will be {@linkplain Services#exportJVMCITo(Class)
>>> * exported} to the module defining the class of the instantiated object.
>>> *
>>> * While the {@link #getProvider(Class)} method can be used directly, it's usually easier to use
>>> * {@link #getProviders(Class)}.
>>> */
>>> public abstract class JVMCIServiceLocator
>> This class will find the provider of a given service.  I think JVMCIServiceLocator is fine.
> Ok, I’ll make that change in the final patch.
>
This name looks okay to me. I assume the first sentence in the javadoc 
will be updated too as it's a service locator now rather than a 
"service-provider".

-Alan