Manifest creation and JAR archives ...

[Marcel May <ma...@consol.de>]

Hi!

I noticed that the manifest creation is not consistent over all the 
archive plugins
(WAR,RAR,EJB-JAR,EAR...), with the JAR plugin manifest generation beeing 
more sophisticated
than the other plugins. For example, custom manifest attributes are only 
supported
for the JAR plugin.

Would it make sense to take the manifest file generation from the JAR 
plugin into a new manifest plugin,
which the other plugins reuse?

- New manifest plugin based on current JAR plugin
- New manifest plugin properties maven.manifest.*
- Current plugins which generate a manifest will use the manifest plugin
- Current plugins which generate manifests may not break if using the 
new manifest plugin (Class-Path entry etc.)

If you want I can volunteer ... refactoring the manifest generation into 
a new plugin and provide you
the patches ... this week :-)

Oh, my original problem was to get a special built timestamp attribute 
into the generated manifest for all
my J2EE artifacts (ear,war,jar,rar,...).

Cheers,
Marcel

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Re: Manifest creation and JAR archives ...

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

This is a good idea, and is the approach taken in Maven 2.

This is probably more suited to a tag library than a plugin, and it must
remain backwards compatible with the properties used previously instead
of replacing them with the new properties.

- Brett

Marcel May wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I noticed that the manifest creation is not consistent over all the
> archive plugins
> (WAR,RAR,EJB-JAR,EAR...), with the JAR plugin manifest generation
> beeing more sophisticated
> than the other plugins. For example, custom manifest attributes are
> only supported
> for the JAR plugin.
>
> Would it make sense to take the manifest file generation from the JAR
> plugin into a new manifest plugin,
> which the other plugins reuse?
>
> - New manifest plugin based on current JAR plugin
> - New manifest plugin properties maven.manifest.*
> - Current plugins which generate a manifest will use the manifest plugin
> - Current plugins which generate manifests may not break if using the
> new manifest plugin (Class-Path entry etc.)
>
> If you want I can volunteer ... refactoring the manifest generation
> into a new plugin and provide you
> the patches ... this week :-)
>
> Oh, my original problem was to get a special built timestamp attribute
> into the generated manifest for all
> my J2EE artifacts (ear,war,jar,rar,...).
>
> Cheers,
> Marcel
>
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