[MJAR-46] Document <manifestFile> element in configuration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Assignee: Dennis Lundberg
• Reporter: Sachin Pravin Patel
• Created: 17/Mar/06 07:30
• Updated: 08/Apr/15 08:03
• Resolved: 11/Jul/06 17:51

Description

The maven-jar-plugin does not accept the manfiestFile element in the configuration as advertised. The error reported is...

[INFO] Failed to configure plugin parameters for:
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1-SNAPSHOT
Cause: Cannot find setter nor field in
org.apache.maven.archiver.ManifestConfiguration for 'manifestFile'

Need to mark this as a blocker as their is no way to merge an existing MANFIEST that is needed to build an eclipse-plugin. The MANIFEST entries cannot be respecified in the plugin configuration because this would break running the plugin in a eclipse runtime-workbench. Keeping the manifest entires in the POM and in the MANIFEST file synchronized is too much maintainance. Need to support merging an existing manifest file.