Top "Manifest.mf" questions

In software packaging, it is common to list the contents of a distribution in a manifest file

How can I tell which signed jar is causing maven-shade-plugin to fail?

To run maven-shade-plugin, I have to use to method described here due to signed dependencies, as shown here: <plugin&…

maven maven-3 manifest.mf jar-signing maven-shade-plugin
Can I call class files that are within a jar library located in another jar file?

I am trying to access the class files packaged as a library but unfortunately the jar libraries should be packaged …

java jar manifest packaging manifest.mf
manifest.mf is overwritten by eclipse during jar export

I would like make an executable jar archive with eclipse. So into my project I created file src/META-INF/MANIFEST.…

eclipse jar export executable-jar manifest.mf
maven-ear-plugin - How to manipulate Manifest.MF of webModule and ejbModule?

I have a multimodule maven project with the following structure: app (parent) -- pom.xml -- app-ear -- pom.xml …

maven manifest ear manifest.mf maven-ear-plugin
How to read meta data from Manifest file

I'm trying to extract information from my manifest file to display in one of the methods in my jar file, …

java manifest.mf
no default META-INF folder in Netbeans project -- where to add files to?

How do I get Netbeans to add javamail.providers into the META-INF folder (which I manually added) without getting into …

netbeans jar manifest manifest.mf meta-inf