[PIVOT-962] Load of classes using a standard discovery method across different projects/jars

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 2.2
• Assignee: Sandro Martini
• Reporter: Sandro Martini
• Created: 29/Oct/14 14:51
• Updated: 02/Nov/15 22:06

Description

Implement a simple but standardized way, for example using Java ServiceLoader (simple to use but with little customizations) to load all classes in CLASSPATH that implements/extends a given class.
Note that a great feature (of ServiceLoader) is that all manifest files with the given name are loaded, even in different projects or jars (available in classpath); could be useful to simplify integration of customizations/extensions.

This could be useful for example to discover and load all Components found in CLASSPATH, from the Skin (maybe with a dedicated implementation of loaders).

Here you can find a sample version of the same concepts, but more general (and for Plugins):
https://github.com/smartiniOnGitHub/dynamic-loaders

Some discussion here:
http://apache-pivot-developers.417237.n3.nabble.com/Loading-of-classes-via-Service-Provider-td4026887.html