Service provider interface (English Wikipedia)

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Seacord, C. Robert & Wrage, Lutz (July 2002). "Replaceable Components and the Service Provider Interface". Software Engineering Institute (CMU).

Thribhuvan Thakur (November 18, 2009). "Service Provider Interface: Creating Extensible Java Applications". Developer.com. Archived from the original on November 22, 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2010. A service provider interface (SPI) is the set of public interfaces and abstract classes that a service defines. A SPI may be represented by a single interface (type) or abstract class or a set of interfaces or abstract classes that define the service contract.

"Introduction to the Service Provider Interfaces". Oracle Java Documentation. Services are units of sound-handling functionality that are automatically available when an application program makes use of an implementation of the Java Sound API
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Thribhuvan Thakur (November 18, 2009). "Service Provider Interface: Creating Extensible Java Applications". Developer.com. Archived from the original on November 22, 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2010. A service provider interface (SPI) is the set of public interfaces and abstract classes that a service defines. A SPI may be represented by a single interface (type) or abstract class or a set of interfaces or abstract classes that define the service contract.