From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:51:57 PDT

Yes, there will be some performance impact, depending on the size of the JAR file containing the service provider implementation(s) that sun.misc.Service.parse() determines, but I don't see any way around this.
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