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

[David Holmes]

On 23/11/2020 6:28 pm, Alex Orlov wrote:
>  > The method does return a "provider". It returns the object that is an
>  > instance of a class that provides the service - hence that object is a
>  > provider.
> I don’t agree with that. It returns the object that is an instance of 
> the service.

And that object is the service provider.

David
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> --
> Best regards, Alex Orlov
> 
>     Понедельник, 23 ноября 2020, 1:30 +03:00 от David Holmes
>     <david.holmes at oracle.com>:
>     On 20/11/2020 9:48 pm, Alex Orlov wrote:
>      >
>      > Hello all,
>      >
>      > According to this tutorial
>     https://www.logicbig.com/tutorials/core-java-tutorial/modules/service-provider-method.html
>     <https://www.logicbig.com/tutorials/core-java-tutorial/modules/service-provider-method.html>
>      > we can declare in module-info provider class with "provider"
>     method. For example,
>      >
>      >  ......
>      > public class TheServiceProvider {
>      >    public static AService provider() {
>      >        return new AServiceImpl();
>      >    }
>      > }
>      >
>      > The only thing what I don’t understand is why this method is
>     called "provider". The method doesn’t return
>      > provider, method returns an instance of the service, so, as I
>     understand, the method must be named
>      > "provide". And, as I understand, provider is usually the class,
>     that has "provide" method.
> 
>     The method does return a "provider". It returns the object that is an
>     instance of a class that provides the service - hence that object is a
>     provider.
> 
>     Cheers,
>     David
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> 
>      > Of course that’s not very important, but it is JDK, so it was
>     developed by very experienced java developer
>      > who should know java naming convention and I want to understand
>     why this did so. Could anyone explain?
>      >
>      >
>      > --
>      > Best regards, Alex Orlov
>      >
>