Some Eclipse Foundation services are deprecated, or will be soon. Please ensure you've read this important communication.

Bug 351290

Summary:	Remove servicehandler.xml
Product:	[RT] RAP	Reporter:	Rüdiger Herrmann <ruediger.herrmann>
Component:	RWT	Assignee:	Project Inbox <rap-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.5 M1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Rüdiger Herrmann

2011-07-06 05:28:53 EDT

A mechanism inherited from W4Toolkit is that the application programmer can place files called servicehandler.xml in the root (empty) package. At startup the classpath is scanned for these files and the contained service-handler registrations are added to the IServiceManager.
This mechanism doesn't fit into todays RWT for several reasons:
* it violates the application scope as there is no way to tell which servicehandler.xml should be used for which application
* it does not work in OSGi as there is no one single class loader
* with the 'Configurator' an alternative way to register service-handlers exist
I suggest to entirely remove this mechanism. Any objections?

Comment 1 Rüdiger Herrmann

2011-07-15 05:34:48 EDT

Removed all code that was responsible for loading the servicehandler.xml. Added some more tests to ServiceManager_Test.
Changes are in CVS HEAD.