Extending java.base module

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/02/2017 13:21, Langer, Christoph wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks all for your very helpful comments.
>
> So I see that I cannot rely on my Service implementation at an early stage. But I can imagine that I query for the service provider and if it's not there I have to be able to live without it.
>
> The question that remains is, when I query the ServiceLoader for my impl at a later time, then I would find it registered, right? I assume that if my module specifies "provides <my service> with <my provider>", the provider will automatically be registered once the module is loaded. Can you confirm that?
>
Yes. If you look in areas like JMX or networking then you'll see lots of 
examples where "extensions" are deployed as service providers. These 
should help you get started.

-Alan