The Discovery Component is about discovering, or finding, implementations for pluggable interfaces. It provides facilities intantiating classes in general, and for lifecycle management of singleton (factory) classes.
Fundamentally, Discovery locates classes that implement a given Java interface. The discovery pattern, though not necessarily this package, is used in many projects including JAXP (SaxParserFactory and others) and commons-logging (LogFactory). By extracting this pattern, other projects can (re)use it and take advantage of improvements to the pattern as Discovery evolves.
Discovery improves over previous implementations by establishing facilities for working within managed environments. These allow configuration and property overrides without appealing to the global System properties (which are scoped across an entire JVM).
This is not indended to be a replacement to be used strictly by the user, but rather a replacement to be used directly by projects. Use by the user is also reasonable, but limited due to 'keeping this simple'. In particular, there is no configuration for this discovery service, it relies soley on usage patterns.
Given a java.lang.Class parameter 'package.Class' that represents a fundamental service as either an interface, an abstract class (or even a regular class), find an implementation of that class:
The package should :
Services relies on:
discovery
in the
jakarta-commons-sandbox
CVS repository.The initial committers on the Service Discovery component shall be: