Some huge points are being overlooked in this discussion.
1. A Plugin is NOT a Java service. You cannot manually create the
META-INF/services entry for your plugin as the plugin system won’t recognize it.
2. A Plugin service is a collection of plugins. This is intentional as loading
all the plug
Well my thing only worked after I added it. And people can only copy what
we do...
Gary
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 12:31 PM Matt Sicker wrote:
> That’s specific to our build, Gary, in order to avoid running the
> processor on modules that don’t need it. Typical users would probably only
> have a sing
That’s specific to our build, Gary, in order to avoid running the processor on
modules that don’t need it. Typical users would probably only have a single
module with custom Log4j plugins.
> On Dec 4, 2024, at 09:19, Gary Gregory wrote:
>
> I had to put some mysterious dot file in the root of
I had to put some mysterious dot file in the root of my Maven module to get
my plugin to work. The only way I found this is by comparison with another
module but not all modules have this file.
Gary
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 8:16 AM Volkan Yazıcı wrote:
> I agree with Pavel that users should only be
I agree with Pavel that users should only be required to
1. Provide the interface implementation
2. Create the associated `META-INF/services` file entry
3. [For Java 9 and above] Update their `module-info.java` accordingly
Anything more than this is non-idiomatic. Telling users "but proc
Yes, it could make sense to replace PluginService stuff with things based on
CFIPP. I developed the DI system somewhat independently from the plugin system
because of the need to support components from the API, and the plugin system
was reimplemented in terms of the DI system, so any simplifica
Hi Pavel,
[NOTE: I am cross-posting this to `dev@logging`, since I believe it is
more appropriate there]
On 29.11.2024 10:26, PavelTurk wrote:
In the world of JPMS, there’s a service, we implement it, and we add
it. I haven’t heard of a service + PROCESSOR that needs to be used.
Can you poin
