[hibernate-dev] [HSEARCH] [Autodiscoverable] Implementation of the service loader based discovery

[Emmanuel Bernard]

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-1581

On 01 Apr 2014, at 22:24, Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org> wrote:

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> On 1 Jan 2014, at 16:36, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:
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>> ## Implementation of the service loader based discovery
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>> Hardy proposes to make each BridgeProvider a Service in the ServiceManager sense.
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> It is right? We allow users to provide their implementations. 
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>> The idea being that when we make a compatible ServiceManager OSGi wise, it will also make a compatible bridge provider discoverer.
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> That’s a nice side effect imo. Depending on far you want to go with OSGi, you probably want to skip at some stage Java’s ServiceLoader
> and do service lookups via OSGi mechanism. Doing Java service loading all via our ServiceManager ensures that we just have one (pluggable)
> spot in case we want to down the OSGi service route.
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>> It looks fine to me but as Hardy pointed out, we would need to make the ServiceManager accept several implementations per Service.
>> I’d like to separate the bridge auto-discoverability feature from that ServiceManager improvement to stay focused.
>> We can converge the service discovery as soon as the SM gains the right capability.
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> Do you have a separate issue for the SessionManager enhancements? 
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> —Hardy
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