how to add arbitrary information in manifest from maven assembly plugin

Question

Hi,

i use the assembly plugin to create a uber jar from several maven artifacts.

Now I like to add some company specific entries into the Manifest of the created assembly jar.

But how ?

the archive element doesnt allow arbitrary elements (or is there a way to add foobar: tutu inside the archive tag ?)

also in addition with maven-jar-plugin it does not work as this only affects the default artifact of the project and not the assembled.

Any idea how to do this ?

Answer 1

argh... after posting it i found it out myself...

<archive>
    <manifestEntries>
        <foobar>bla</foobar>
    </manifestEntries>
</archive>

works :)