Description Keith W. Campbell 2005-09-23 15:16:37 EDT

Attached is a patch to improve the performance and usability
of the Service framework.

ExecutionStrategy
    For loops use integer indexing rather than iterators.

Service
    Inlined uses of final ProviderDescriptor.getElement()

    Removed unnecessary calls to String.valueOf(Object).

    Added convenience method to simplify configuration of most services.
        public void configureProviders(String namespace, String extensionPointName)

    Changed implementation of providers field. An array is indexed by
    priority ordinal replaces the more expensive HashMap keyed by priority.

    Renamed cacheSize to priorityCount to reflect its more general use.

    Nest adding providers in a try/finally block to prevent failures
    of one provider from affecting others. Improved readability of
    tracing messages.

    Compute size of list required in getAllProviders() to avoid
    extra allocations and copying or waste if the default size is
    incorrect.

    Inlined uses of final methods isOptimized() and isOptimistic().