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diff --git a/java/apache-commons-discovery/pkg-descr b/java/apache-commons-discovery/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4c678722321c --- /dev/null +++ b/java/apache-commons-discovery/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Commons Discovery: Service Discovery component + +The Discovery Component is about discovering, or finding, implementations for +pluggable interfaces. It provides facilities instantiating 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). + +WWW: http://commons.apache.org/discovery/ |