[MSHADE-313] Minimize jar should respect implementations under /META-INF/services/

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.2
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Markus Karg
• Created: 21/Mar/19 09:32
• Updated: 14/Apr/19 13:48
• Resolved: 14/Apr/19 12:28

Description

The maven shade plugin already does a great job in minimizing JAR size. For the majority of applications this is exactly what is needed.

On the other hand there are some application areas where the algorithm is too agressive. One particular and rather frequently found case is the services API: ServiceLoader will ceise to work for minimized JARs since it is the prototype of the biggest "minimize-JAR-antipattern": String-to-class conversion.

To make <minimizeJar> usable in such scenarios, there should be a set of options to enable the usual suspetcs (like ServiceLoader) to be detected.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #17