META-INF/services in JAR with Gradle

Question

I wanted to build a plugin module that can be loaded with a ServiceLoader. This requires adding a file to the META-INF/services directory, that is named after t

Answer 1

You place META-INF/services/org.example.plugins.PluginService in src/main/java, but it's not a source, it's a resource file, therefore it should be placed in resources folder according to Maven directory layout convention, that is

src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.example.plugins.PluginService

In this case everything should work out of the box.