I believe that the doc has been moved to the doc of the ServiceLoader https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/util/ServiceLoader.html
Rémi ----- Mail original ----- > De: "David Holmes" <david.hol...@oracle.com> > À: "Jochen Theodorou" <blackd...@gmx.org>, "jigsaw-dev" > <jigsaw-dev@openjdk.java.net> > Envoyé: Mercredi 27 Décembre 2017 07:27:21 > Objet: Re: Module system and services directory in META-INF > 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
