[MWAR-15] Support separate generation of WAR's manifest.mf

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Assignee: Mike Perham
• Reporter: Mike Perham
• Created: 08/Nov/05 14:25
• Updated: 08/Mar/06 23:09
• Resolved: 08/Jan/06 19:08

Description

Attached is a "war:manifest" goal for programmatically generating the WAR's manifest.mf. This is not useful for the WAR generation (since the war plugin already supports generating the manifest at the time the war is created) but it is useful for use with IDEs that require the MANIFEST.MF in the source tree when working with a war project (in my case, IBM's Rational Software Architect).

We configure this for use as follows:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
<warSourceExcludes>WEB-INF/lib/*.jar</warSourceExcludes>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>

It generates it to ${warSourceDirectory}/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF which is where RSA expects it to reside.