Yes. But. The current content breaks the expected semantics of the ServiceLoader mechanism. That is, a line in a file such as META-INF/services/com.acme.Foo, is expected to be
- a fully classified classname - with no-args constructor - that implements (if the filename denotes an interface) or extends (if the filename denotes a class) the target type. Per these rules the content of META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.source.Extensions is wrong. Given that this metadata file is to be used by the Groovy compiler alone it would be better to use a different path/naming convention that does not clash with existing Java conventions, something like META-INF/groovy/org.codehaus.groovy.source.Extensions Unless I missed something this should work, shouldn't it? Cheers, Andres ------------------------------------------- Java Champion; Groovy Enthusiast JCP EC Associate Seat http://andresalmiray.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/aalmiray -- What goes up, must come down. Ask any system administrator. There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion. On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Cédric Champeau <cedric.champ...@gmail.com> wrote: > This file is used by Groovy internally, there's no reason for the JDK to > interpret its contents since it has only a meaning for Groovy. In short, it > declares the list of extensions recognized by the Groovy compiler. That it > prevents loading as a module is rather strange. > > 2017-12-03 16:37 GMT+01:00 Ceki Gulcu <c...@qos.ch>: > >> Hi all, >> >> Referring to a discussion on the maven users list [1], it appears that >> removing the file META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.source.Extensions >> from groovy-2.4.13.jar allows Java 9 to successfully load groovy-2.4.13.jar >> as an auto-module. >> >> The org.codehaus.groovy.source.Extensions file contains the lone word >> "groovy" instead of a fully qualified class name. >> >> Please advise. >> >> Best regards, >> >> -- >> Ceki Gülcü >> >> [1] http://markmail.org/message/obdyvuv24kqpxm6v >> > >