On 2014-12-15, Kristian Rosenvold wrote: > There is also the issue of determining if the MANIFEST.MF file really > needs to be the first file in the jar, which puts an interesting > constraint on the parallelism. I have been unable to understand if the > jar spec actually requires this or if it's just stuff from the old > days.
AFAIR the jar spec does not require it, but many tools do - maybe even java.util.jar, but I'm not sure. When distinguishing a jar from a "normal" zip most tools require the "jar marker" to be the first zip extra field of the first entry - and IIRC some tools we've come across required this entry to be the META-INF directory. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
