JPMS ServiceLoader does not work for me as expected. I am trying to provide a desktop program as an executable jar with a default service, that can be overloaded by the individual user. A user prov...

I'm obfuscating/optimizing an app and a set of plugin/libraries (using ServiceLoader) via maven. The plugins are only created/maintained in the same code base as the app, it's not an interface inte...

I am getting this error message when I try to compile my new modularized Java 11 application: Error occurred during initialization of boot layer java.lang.module.FindException: Unable to derive mo...

I would like to be able to indicate an enum type as an interface implementation and then load all enums as separate instances/implementations of the interface via the ServiceLoader API. An example ...

I have a library method that can be used to connect to a database and then build a document using data from the database. When they run this app with no parameters, I want to list out all availabl...

I just read about Java 9 module system and I'd like to ask about ServiceLoader. Is there any way how to add service implementation when the application is already started? How about removing some s...

I came across the documentation of ServiceLoader and am unclear as to what use cases it suits. When would one use ServiceLoader?

We have been trying to get SPI Fly to work with openstack4j-core and one of the openstack4j connectors (openstack4j-httpclient). It is org.openstack4j.core.transport.HttpExecutorService that requir...

I'm trying to understand the Java ServiceLoader concepts, working mechanism and concrete use cases, but find the official documentation too abstract and confusing. First of all, documentation outl...

I'm trying to create a plugin system for my application, and I want to start with something simple. Every plugin should be packed in a .jar file and implement the SimplePlugin interface: package p...

I have the following gradle build config: plugins { id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '1.2.3' } group 'abc' version '1.0-SNAPSHOT' apply plugin: 'java' apply plugin: 'application' mai...

This is more a general question by example: I'm using xstream and woodstox, woodstox comes with a service provider for javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory in woodstox jar registering com.ctc.wstx.sta...

Have been trying this since few days and can't get it working! I am trying to build a pluggable java application where I can run it from command line and provide plugins (jars) in a separated fold...

I tried to use the Java ServiceLoader to find all classes that implement a specific interface like so: loader = ServiceLoader.load(Operation.class); try { for (Operation o : loader) { operations...

I really did a lot of research before asking this, it seems like I'm missing something. I try to implement a ServiceLoader and therefore made an example class: the code is simple: testInterface...

I am very new to Java (coming from C# .NET background). Trying to create an "expansion/IoC" style architecture via a combination of Google Guice and ServiceLoader, but can't seem to get the Service...

I have a legacy Java application that has code something like this ServiceLoader.load(SomeInterface.class) and I want to provide a mock implementation of SomeInterface for this code to use. I us...

I'm looking for something like the ServiceLoader, but which does not depend on SPI file, where all the service implementations should be enumerated and then added to the path of some class loader, ...

I am trying to find out if there is a Spring analogue of the ServiceLoader class which is part of the standard SDK's API. If there is such a class how is it used? Please advise!

I am very new to java and android development and to learn I am trying to start with an application to gather statistics and information like munin does. I am trying to be able to load "plugins" in...

I am trying to put together a basic SPI-based registry of Handlers, which I lookup from a HandlerRegistry. When I use the ServiceLoader.load(Handler.class) to initialize the providers, and then ite...

I have a custom charset which is already working on JavaSE. The class of my CharsetProvider is specified in a file java.nio.charset.spi.CharsetProvider which is located in META-INF/services and ev...

I'm asking because I'm totally not sure I've done the right thing. I'm using Eclipse for a web project. Let's call it WebProject (duh) in the package com.web.project. I want WebProject to load JAR...

I have a web application that defines a Hibernate Integrator as part of the Java ServiceLoader specification like so: src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.hibernate.integrator.spi.Integrator ...

I have been trying to refactor our Activiti implementation into using CDI but ran into a number of problems. I've spent way too much time trying to resolve this already, but I just can't let it go....