Hi all, We have a "mature" (10+ year old) Netbeans Platform Swing product, which has 35+ modules. This all works well.
As usual, when one Netbeans module provides an Implementation we find it from other Netbeans modules using the usual idiom ... Provider: puts entry in META-INF/services Consumer: MyClass myObj = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(MyClass.class); Our current issue is that we need to add an external jar that is NOT built using Netbeans, so it can't use Lookup. I have placed this external jar into a module wrapper, and one of our modules depends on it so we can successfully start this service as appropriate. Again, everything is perfect with this setup. The problem is that this external jar is looking for services from our Netbeans platform product, it is seeking them using standard java ServiceLoader capability, but the implementations are not found. I *think* that if we use the Netbeans System ClassLoader then it CAN locate the implementations, however we don't want to use the system classloader because it will cause other issues. Does anyone have any suggestions on how a wrapped jar might access Netbeans META-INF/services implementations via vanilla Java ServiceLoader SPI interface? Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated. Many thanks, -Damian
