Thanks for the fast and extensive replies. I'll have a look at it and retry. 
Maybe a JavaDoc-comment makes it a bit easier being new to «funny things with 
service registration that's not so funny at all».
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Betreff: Re: fop.jar, Service-registration mechanism, one-jar problem
Gesendet: Fr 27 Apr 2007 08:50:57 CEST
Von: "Jeremias Maerki"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Plus, you may need to merge some text files inside /META-INF/services if
> you merge multiple JARs which may have files with the same name.
> 
> BTW, FOP doesn't do "funny things" concerning renderer registration.
> This is a properly documented facility offered through Java. See here:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Service%20Provider
> Many packages use that facility including: ImageIO, javax.sound, Apache
> Batik, Apache Xalan-J and many more.
> 
> 
> On 27.04.2007 02:10:20 Daniel Noll wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Now FOP does a funny thing with renderer-registration and I don't see
> > > the use for it. Instead of doing a sort of init process like:
> > > 
> > > - create map
> >  > - register internal classes with MIMEs
> >  > - handover map to plugin concept
> > > 
> > > you do something like "read entries from file fop.jar and register if
> > > instance of some sort of abstract renderer".
> > 
> > It sounds like you might have just forgotten to put the content of 
> > fop.jar's /META-INF directory into your own jar file.
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremias Maerki
> 
> 
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