More flexibility in providing services from modules?

[Tom De Wolf]

The current ServiceLoader mechanism and Java Modules have a limited set of
options to provide an instance for a service from a module. Or you use the
constructor, or you use a static 'provider' method.

When interacting with frameworks like Spring this does not give a lot of
flexibility. I described the problem statement and some ideas which could
be considered for evolving the services support in the module system in
this blog post:

https://devcreativity.wordpress.com/2019/03/02/java-modules-wish-list-provide-services-using-lambda-functions-and-more/


I would appreciate if some of the oracle contributors that worked on the
module system could read the post and provide me and the community with
some feedback if such a change could be a good idea?

Thanks in advance

Tom