Dynamically loading plugin jars using ServiceLoader

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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.

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