"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | No. API/SPI is always allowed to reference plugins. | But this means that you cannot change the 'plugins' implementation on top of spi? So spi is here meant as a central point of code - abstraction from the impl details - not meant to be 'changed'? "adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | Otherwise factories wouldn't be able to define a default implementation for example. | Reflection? :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4041348#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...