STOP PRESS: Just found this after writing the text below:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5760607/using-serviceloader-on-android
Looks like apk's don't easily support the ServiceLoader pattern...
I'm trying to use the jar files in an Android app and I get the above
exception. I have a normal java app that works with jclouds, but for some
reason I can't get them to work in Android. Here is the list of
dependencies I'm using:
Ah, it's on Android (I recall this list - I think I mentioned the mix
of versions already ;-)). The mix of versions certainly won't help,
although I remember you said things didn't work otherwise. Can you see
which, if any,
META-INF/services/org.jclouds.providers.ProviderMetadata
files you have on the classpath of the actual compiled binary? If the
Android packaging (and I'm not the Android expert, so apologies if
this doesn't make sense) does something like merging all the jclouds
JARs into something like an uberjar, these files will need to be merged.
As a debugging aid, you can explicitly try to load all resources of
that name you can find on your app's classpath [1] and print their
contents. If you can't find any such classpath resources, that will be
why we see this problem.
ap
[1]
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html#getResources(java.lang.String)
