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All ssems good right? Actually, when you ask to Java Service Loader first Printer and then Scanner, even if you have a sigle implementation for both interfaces, you will get two different instances.

A service is a well-known set of interfaces and (usually abstract) classes. A service provider is a specific implementation of a service. The classes in a provider typically implement the interfaces ...