Module system and services directory in META-INF

[David Holmes]

On 27/12/2017 5:43 AM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
> 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

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/specs/jar/jar.html

but the Service provider section is gone. Also the document seems 
mis-formatted.

David

> bye Jochen
>