[infinispan-dev] Marshaller implementation discovery

[Galder Zamarreño]

Sounds good to me: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-851

On Dec 28, 2010, at 12:08 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:

> 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
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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache