[AMQ-4999] Disable jar indexing

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.10.0
• Assignee: Claus Ibsen
• Reporter: Jonas
• Created: 29/Jan/14 13:07
• Updated: 29/Mar/14 10:49
• Resolved: 29/Mar/14 10:49

Description

ActiveMQ's pom.xml uses maven-jar-plugin with <index>true</index>, which creates META-INF/INDEX.LIST file in the JAR files. This is useless when done only for a single jar file and might in some cases even be harmful.

I propose to disable the generation INDEX.LIST files.

For a full discussion of the drawbacks, see the corresponding bug track at Tomcat's Bugzilla: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49236