[maven-bug] New comment: (MAVEN-334) Improve the content of the manifest file in archives

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The following comment has been added to this issue:

     Author: Aslak Hellesøy
    Created: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 8:14 PM
       Body:
Spot-on!

I have actually just experienced the same problem. I'm using Maven to package a jar where some of the classes are Java Beans, so I specify my own manifest file (that Ant will merge into the Manifest specified in the jar plugin's jelly script).

My manifest file looks as follows:
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Name: xdoclet/plugins/VelocityPlugin.class
Java-Bean: True
Name: xdoclet/plugins/JellyPlugin.class
Java-Bean: True
Name: xdoclet/XDoclet.class
Java-Bean: True
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I specify this in project.properties:

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# We're specifying our own MANIFEST.MF to be merged with the Manifest created by Maven.
# This MANIFEST.MF is created by the SDK and declares XDoclet classes that are
# Java beans. This is in order to support Java bean containers like IDEs.
maven.jar.manifest = ${maven.build.dest}/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
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And when I run the java:jar target I get this warning:

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java:jar:
    [jar] Building jar: F:\cvs\xdoclet2\target\xdoclet-2.0-alpha-SNAPSHOT.jar
    [jar] Manifest warning: "Name" attributes should not occur in the main section and must be the first element in all other sections: "Name: xdoclet/plugins/VelocityPlugin.class"
    [jar] Manifest warning: "Name" attributes should not occur in the main section and must be the first element in all other sections: "Name: xdoclet/XDoclet.class"
    [jar] Manifest warning: "Name" attributes should not occur in the main section and must be the first element in all other sections: "Name: xdoclet/plugins/JellyPlugin.class"
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The final manifest file looks as follows:

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Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: Apache Jakarta Maven
Built-By: Aslak Hellesøy
Package: xdoclet
Build-Jdk: 1.4.1_01

Name: xdoclet
Specification-Title: xdoclet
Specification-Version: 2.0-alpha-SNAPSHOT
Specification-Vendor: XDoclet Team
Implementation-Title: xdoclet
Implementation-Version: 2.0-alpha-SNAPSHOT
Implementation-Vendor: XDoclet Team

Name: xdoclet/plugins/VelocityPlugin.class
Java-Bean: True

Name: xdoclet/plugins/JellyPlugin.class
Java-Bean: True

Name: xdoclet/XDoclet.class
Java-Bean: True
---------------

Despite the warnings, it works fine. Java is still able to figure out my three Java Beans - java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(XDoclet.class) does find the correct BeanInfo. -But it's clearly wrong to use

Name: xdoclet

It should be (as you point out) 

Extension-Name: xdoclet

Cheers,
Aslak
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        Key: MAVEN-334
    Summary: Improve the content of the manifest file in archives
       Type: Improvement

     Status: Assigned
   Priority: Minor

 Time Spent: Unknown
   Estimate: 2 hours

    Project: maven
  Component: plugin-java

   Assignee: Ben Walding
   Reporter: Ben Walding

    Created: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 7:18 PM
    Updated: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 7:18 PM

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