Furnace container should support pluggable service providers.

11:49:28 AM lincolnthree1: gastaldi: I am considering creating a furnace-cdi addon
11:50:22 AM lincolnthree1: if all addons depended on this, it would make it a lot easier to support pluggable addon containers, instead of assuming CDI based on beans.xml
11:50:32 AM lincolnthree1: they could depend on that instead of furnace-api
11:50:43 AM lincolnthree1: and it would no longer need to be <provided> scope
11:51:21 AM lincolnthree1: i would say that it could wait for Forge 2.1
11:51:23 AM lincolnthree1: but...
11:51:29 AM lincolnthree1: it would likely not be a backwards compatible change.
11:52:16 AM lincolnthree1: it's pretty complicated though
11:52:22 AM lincolnthree1: so i'll probably put it off
11:52:40 AM lincolnthree1: we need to get business value first
11:52:42 AM lincolnthree1: and we don't need that atm
11:53:08 AM lincolnthree1: but… what we could do is use the addon as a marker
11:53:18 AM lincolnthree1: that would be simpler than actually implementing it all
11:53:23 AM lincolnthree1: it would still bring in the APIs
11:53:29 AM lincolnthree1: but wouldn't really change the internals
11:55:24 AM gastaldi: hummm
11:55:31 AM gastaldi: that would be interesting
11:55:32 AM lincolnthree1: actually, that might very well work
11:55:57 AM gastaldi: I think we should do it for 2.0
11:56:00 AM lincolnthree1: in the end, this addon would register a service called "AddonInitializer" that handles the startup/shutdown of the addon (aka, addon Runnable)
11:56:02 AM lincolnthree1: yeah me too
11:56:15 AM lincolnthree1: Furnace could get that instance from the addon itself using ServiceLoader
11:56:32 AM lincolnthree1: then it would call it and the lifecycle comes from the addon itself!!
11:56:41 AM lincolnthree1: brilliant!
11:57:07 AM lincolnthree1: a classloading-only addon just becomes one, then, that doesnt have an AddonInitializer
11:57:10 AM lincolnthree1: I like it
11:57:11 AM lincolnthree1: a lot
11:57:58 AM gastaldi: JIRA that sh*t
11:58:18 AM lincolnthree1: it maybe already
11:58:23 AM lincolnthree1: but i'll add these notes if it is
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12:00:04 PM lincolnthree1: gastaldi: getting lunch and relocating
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12:00:35 PM gegastaldi: K
12:02:17 PM gegastaldi: That would enable CDI extensions
12:02:26 PM gegastaldi: On each addon
12:02:43 PM lincolnthree1: gegastaldi: maybe
12:02:46 PM lincolnthree1: gegastaldi: hopefully