[LABS-366] [basics] Take control of service discovery

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Current
• Fix Version/s: Current
• Component/s: Magma
• Assignee: Simone Gianni
• Reporter: Simone Gianni
• Created: 20/May/09 17:10
• Updated: 27/May/09 12:09
• Resolved: 27/May/09 12:09

Description

Currently "standard" Java service loading is used for converters and formatters. This system has a number of drawbacks :

• It depends on classpath sorting for dealing with duplicates
• It is a "recent" standard (at least not back compatible with java 5)

Taking control of this mechanism using the default Settings system would bring a number of advantages :

• Unified and uniform configuration
• Conflict resolution based on environment, user, defaults and the rest (as it happens for other settings)
• Possibility to implement LABS-365