Hi.

I'm trying to get the ServiceLoader functionality running within JBoss 7.1.0. I've got an .ear which provides the extension point (abstract class) for adding new implementations via

JDK ServiceLoader. Now I would like to simply drop a .jar with the custom implementation into JBoss and to let the .ear pick it up. AFAIK dropping a jar into JBoss5 automatically

published that to all deployed modules out-of-the-box. I've learned that with JBoss7, things changed.

So I created a module that contains the custom jar (resources-root path="custom.jar") and referenced that via jboss-deployment-structure.xml within the .ear. That basically seems to work.

But in this case, I have to know in advance, how the jar or module will be named to add the dep to the .ear. Ok, I could make the module name fixed and add every custom jar via resources-root - but

I would like to avoid even editing the file. Simply dropping a jar to a directory should be sufficient. So I tried to use a directory in resources-root instead of a jar and put the jars into the directory.

But in this case it seems that they won't be picked up via ServiceLoader at all.

Is it even possible to specify a directory where all jar's are picked up by the ServiceLoader? Without mentioning them explicitly in the module.xml?