[hibernate-dev] Fwd: ServiceLoader and @ProviderFor

On Fri 05 Oct 2012 03:14:57 PM CDT, Hardy Ferentschik wrote: > No strong opinion to be honest. I have not had any problems with managing the service files and since refactoring in Idea consider text files as well it is not such a big issues IMO. Using any annotation processor always adds also a bit of pixie dust. Someone new to the source/ build needs to put several pieces together to understand how things fit together. > > On the other hand, we have already several APs in the build what does one more matter ;-) If others things it makes there live easier ... > > --hardy > > > > On 5 Oct 2012, at 21:23, Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > >> https://code.google.com/p/spi/ >> >> ^^ defines an annotation and processor for helping with services in the >> JDK ServiceLoader sense. >> >> For example, if you wanted to implement Integrator: >> >> @ProviderFor(Integrator.class) >> public void class MyIntegrator implements Integrator { >> ... >> } >> >> The AP then: >> 1) validates your defined services (not really sure what this means >> behind making sure you define a no-arg ctor). >> 2) manages your >> META-INF/services/org.hibernate.integrator.spi.Integrator file for you >> >> Just wanted to see what y'all thought of including this for building. >> It is not a runtime dependency at all! More I am just wondering if >> y'all thought this made it easier/better to manage the META-INF/services >> provider file. >> >> >> -- >> steve(a)hibernate.org >> http://hibernate.org >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev -- steve(a)hibernate.org http://hibernate.org