Are you perhaps looking for SPI?

You could consider defining a factory interface in the API module, then implement this factory interface in the impl module and add the corresponding configuration file for SPI.

// api
public interface Builder {
   static Builder create(version) {
      ServiceLoader<BuilderFactory> bfs = ServiceLoader.load(BuilderFactory.class);
      Iterator<BuilderFactory> itr = bfs.iterator();
      if (itr.hasNext()) {
         BuilderFactory bf = itr.next();
         return bf.create(version);
      }
      throw new IllegalStateException();
   }
}

public interface BuilderFactory {
   Builder create(version);
}


// impl

// create [META-INF/services/BuilderFactory's Full classname] in impl module and
// write "DefaultBuilderFactory's full classname"
public class DefaultBuilderFactory implements BuilderFactory {
   Builder create(version) {
      if (xx) {
         return new Builder1;
      }
      return new Builder2;
   }
}