[ACCUMULO-3514] Use Java ServiceLoader to identify classes that are launchable by start

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: start
• Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
• Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
• Created: 22/Jan/15 22:57
• Updated: 09/Mar/17 19:37
• Resolved: 04/Feb/15 21:52

Description

This is similar to the goals of ACCUMULO-1496, but it should be possible to do it more efficiently with an annotation processor and Java's ServiceLoader. If successful, this would supersede ACCUMULO-1496.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: ACCUMULO-1826 Improve or extend "accumulo version" command
• is related to: ACCUMULO-4605 Main.java shouldn't have hard-coded lists of commands for usage
• is related to: ACCUMULO-2414 Use annotations for discovering shell commands
• supercedes: ACCUMULO-1496 Use annotations to identify classes that are launchable by the start code
• supercedes: ACCUMULO-1844 Tests to ensure that Main's classnames exist
• links to: Review on ReviewBoard