Need to have the manifest generated data moved deeper inside of the jar

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Need to have the manifest generated data moved deeper inside of the jar

Due to a design issue outside of my control, the MANIFEST.MF file populated by the Maven Archiver plugin (inside of Maven jar plugin) is overwritten.

Can I:

move the file further down into the jar (i.e. from /META-INF to /src/home or something)
Populate a different file with the contents that would normally go into MANIFEST.mf (i.e. src/home/something.txt)

I've tried to change the <manifestFile> property but that just merges the manifest from that location to the /META-INF location.

I don't really get the point - that's not a MANIFEST.MF anymore - but if you move the contents to, say src/main/resources/src/home/something.txt, src/home/something.txt will end up in the jar. Unless I misunderstood something, this is what you asked for. If it isn't, please clarify.

Pascal Thivent 2010-07-28 20:42:06

I would actually just call it MANIFEST.MF(I didn't to clarify that the information inside the file was what i cared about)- my desire is to get the manifest information and put it in somewhere else that doesn't get overwritten-so I can use it to view the build information on the server it is eventually deployed to.If I could create a file called something.txt inside the jar with the exact contents of the MANIFEST.MF file- I would be happy.

rickjr82 2010-07-28 21:05:01

@rickjr82: So you still want it to get generated, that's it? If yes, when does the generated MANIFEST.MF get overwritten exactly? That may be important for an alternative answer.

Pascal Thivent 2010-07-28 21:14:35

It gets overwritten after it gets deployed to the server. I don't have access to this server and the deploy is a standalone process which takes the jar as an input.I do want it generated, I need the data.

rickjr82 2010-07-28 22:44:07

@rickjr82: Then the above solution would work.

Pascal Thivent 2010-07-28 23:05:06

What above solution?

rickjr82 2010-07-29 12:22:21

I know I need to know how to move the contents of the manifest file, my question was how.

rickjr82 2010-07-29 13:13:41

I just unjar, copy, rejar - not the most ellegant solution, but it works

rickjr82 2010-07-30 16:25:47

(that was my solution)

rickjr82 2010-07-30 16:45:03

@rickjr82: Erf, I misread one of your comment. I read *"I don't want it generated"* and I didn't suggest to unjar/rejar. Sorry for that.

Pascal Thivent 2010-07-30 17:07:27

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