[jboss-as7-dev] How should META-INF/services be dealt with in modules?

So I have been looking at what the minimum is for a reasteasy based war to work with an application/xml content type since the providers for that are bundled in the as7 modules, but the providers are not getting registered by default. The war does not include any of the resteasy jars in its WEB-INF/lib as it looks like everything should already be included in the as7 modules. In order for this to work, I have to register all of the javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider annotated classes from the resteasy-jaxb-provider-2.1.0.GA.jar in my resteasy Application: import javax.ws.rs.core.Application; public class StatusApplication extends Application { @Override public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() { Class<?>[] classes = { org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.JAXBXmlSeeAlsoProvider.class, org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.JAXBXmlRootElementProvider.class, org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.JAXBElementProvider.class, org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.JAXBXmlTypeProvider.class, org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.CollectionProvider.class, org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.MapProvider.class, org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.XmlJAXBContextFinder.class }; for(Class<?> c : classes) providers.add(c); return providers; } Normally resteasy is expecting that it can locate these via the jar META-INF/services/javax.ws.rs.ext.Providers mechanism, but when the resteasy framework does the following call while processing the application: Enumeration<URL> en = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResources("META-INF/services/" + Providers.class.getName()); all it sees is the resteasy-jaxrs-2.1.0.GA.jar/META-INF/services/javax.ws.rs.ext.Providers resources. It looks like many of the other resteasy provider modules would not be loaded simply because they are purely extension modules with implementations. What is the correct way to integrate a collection of services using the META-INF/services mechanism?