On 26.12.2017 19:30, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
hi all,
Do all files in META-INF/services now have to be well formed according
to the SPI strucutres in Java, or is it still valid to have other files
in there as well? Before the module system it was no problem to have in
there service decriptors, that are services, but do not use the
ServiceProvider structure. Nothing was disturbed as long as nobody tried
to load it that way. Now this seems to be different and I am wondering
where this got specified.
Because the spec does not try to define file layouts so much I have the
feeling that this is not really specified by the java module system. Was
it then a decision by some maven plugin writers or maybe even the javac
guys?
I found
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html#Service_Provider
Is there no Java 9 version? Also the spec is not specific enough for
this as it sounds more like implicit assumption than specification
bye Jochen
