serviceloader – Tarik Billa

Java ServiceLoader with multiple Classloaders

August 21, 2023 by Tarik

I personally do not like the ServiceLoader under any circumstances. It’s slow and needlessly wasteful and there is little you can do to optimize it. I also find it a bit limited — you really have to go out of your way if you want to do more than search by type alone. xbean-finder’s ResourceFinder … Read more

Dynamically loading plugin jars using ServiceLoader

May 13, 2023 by Tarik

The problem was very simple. And stupid. In the plugin .jar files the /services/plugintest.SimplePlugin file was missing inside the META-INF directory, so the ServiceLoader couldn’t identify the jars as services and load the class. That’s pretty much all, the second (and cleaner) way works like a charm.