creating META-INF/services folder in Eclipse

Question

I am trying to create an extensible app in Java and chose to use SPI. According to this tutorial I am following, I am supposed to create a specific file in META-INF/servic

Answer 1

Assuming you are building your jar file with Apache's Ant, you need to add a metainf fileset, or better yet, use a services directive like so

If you don't use apache's Ant, then you need to add a file to your jar

jar -uf jarfile.jar META-INF/services/name.of.general.service

which contains the name of the service's implementation

com.mycorp.services.Fooservice

If you are generating the JAR file using Eclipse's "Runnable Jar file export" under the project, select "save as ANT script" and then modify the ant script to pack in the services as described above.