[infinispan-dev] Marshaller implementation discovery

Sanne Grinovero asked me to drop a quick note about the API used to discover JBoss Marshalling implementations. Since 1.2.0.GA, you can use the org.jboss.marshalling.Marshalling class methods to locate protocol implementations without involving a hard dependency in your sources. I've heard that Infinispan uses this pattern to load the implementation class: (MarshallerFactory) Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass("org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshallerFactory").newInstance(); This is a bit kludgey though and is considerably more complex than just doing: Marshaller.getMarshallerFactory("river"); which uses the java.util.ServiceLoader API to locate and instantiate the appropriate implementation class, also using the TCCL, and should be functionally equivalent (yet quite a bit cleaner) to the former. -- - DML