[MSHARED-132] Add support for manifest attributes introduced with java.lang.instrument

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Affects Version/s: maven-archiver-2.4
• Component/s: maven-archiver
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andreas Sewe
• Created: 12/Oct/09 14:39
• Updated: 06/Sep/15 20:44
• Resolved: 06/Sep/15 20:44

Description

With J2SE 1.5 and the java.lang.instrument package, new manifest attributes have been introduced: Pre-Main-Class, Agent-Class, Boot-Class-Path, etc. (see http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/instrument/package-summary.html for a complete list). It would be great if the maven-archiver could support these as well as it supports the very similar Main-Class and Class-Path manifest attributes. (Note, however, that the attributes introduced require the use of JARs; they are not completely independent of the archive format, so maybe maven-archiver is not a perfect fit.)