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When running easy-plugins, any existing META-INF/services files that easy-plugins tries to update have all newlines removed.
(fix is to add writer.write('\n') after this line)

cc: @c0d3d
easy-plugins works well within a single-classloader environment, but there are challenges involved with running things across OSGi boundaries. In particular, the *Registry classes are only able to discover services via the ServiceLoader API, meaning that the only way of wiring things up in a cross-bundle scenario is via the OSGi service mediator (in theory). Worse, this requires users to break the easy-plugins abstraction by specifying the auto-generated interface in provider bundles' OSGi manifests. To overcome these issues, we should provide better support for wiring up services. Some ideas:

• Ability to manually register services with registries (Solves issue 1 but not issue 2). In combination with an OSGi service tracker, this would remove the need for the service mediator.
• Automatically add the auto-generated service to the OSGi manifest during compilation (which should make the service mediator "just work"...?)
• Add a method to the registry which returns a service tracker for its associated interface. This has the following benefits: (a) it is a "robust" abstraction which still hides many details, (b) it can be implemented by a plugin.

Additionally, there may be good solutions not listed here.

In order to enable Travis (unless you feel like setting up a Jenkins server), we will need to make this repository public.