Service Loader config file doesn't explode properly - eclipse

Question

So I am writing a webapp in Eclipse and I want to use the serviceloader in one of my classes. Question is where to put the META-INF/services stuff. From here (https://stackoverflow.com/a/3421191/2742995) I found:
But the ideal way is to have it in your plugin's jar file. E.g if you
have a plugin bundled as WEB-INF/lib/myplugin.jar, and your plugin
class is com.example.plugin.MyPlugin Then the jar should have a
structure:
myplugin.jar!/META-INF/services/com.example.plugin.MyPlugin
So I have in the module containing the serviceloader stuff, the source: src/main/java/ containing
vcs.validation.* (containing the source code)
a folder: META-INF/services/vcs.validation.javatests.JavaTest containing:
Test1 (which reads vcs.validation.javatests.Test1) and
Test2 (which reads vcs.validation.javatests.Test2)
(The interface vcs.validation.javatests.JavaTest has two implementing classes Test1 and Test2)
However, when I package the whole webapp as a war and deploy in tomcat the web-app/WEB-INF/classes/ folder does not contain any META-INF/services/. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Structure should be:
Project
| Module
| | src
| | main
| | java
| | [ source code]
| | resources
| | META-INF
| | services
| | [service files]
instead of:
Project
| Module
| | src
| | main
| | java
| | [source code]
| | META-INF
| | services
| | [service files]
In this way the service files are no longer exploded to webapp/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/services but just live in the jar in which they are packaged according to:
myplugin.jar!/META-INF/services/com.example.plugin.MyPlugin