Why service provider method is called "provider", but not "provide"?

[Alan Bateman]

On 23/11/2020 08:28, Alex Orlov wrote:
>   
> I don’t agree with that. It returns the object that is an instance of the service.
>   
The method returns an instance of the service provider.

The enhancements to ServiceLoader in Java 9 were tracked as 
#ServiceLoaderEnhancements [1], the link to "Proposal" has a good 
summary of the update.

-Alan


[1] 
https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/spec/issues/#ServiceLoaderEnhancements