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Andreas Sewe commented on MSHARED-132:
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I am aware of this possibility, which for {{Pre-Main-Class}} and
{{Agent-Class}} it works fine (just as it would for {{Main-Class}}, by the way
;-)); it simply changes the name of the XML element I have to use. Support for
the {{Class-Path}} manifest attribute, however, has some more smarts build in.
I thus wonder whether some of them might suit {{Boot-Class-Path}} as well.
There is, however, the issue that you would rarely want *all* dependencies to
show up in {{Boot-Class-Path}}; some of them should probably still end up in
the {{Class-Path}} entry. The question then is how to make this configurable.
Maybe one can distinguish by means of a classifier, as is possible with, e.g.,
the include and exclude directives of {{dependency:copy-dependencies}}.
That being said, I can live with explicit {{manifestEntries}}; it only causes
me to repeat myself whenever the {{Boot-Class-Path}} grows longer, as for each
of its entries I still have to have a {{provided}}-scoped dependency (to cause
Maven to compile my boot class path JARs automatically).
> Add support for manifest attributes introduced with java.lang.instrument
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> Key: MSHARED-132
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSHARED-132
> Project: Maven Shared Components
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: maven-archiver
> Affects Versions: maven-archiver-2.4
> Reporter: Andreas Sewe
> Priority: Minor
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> 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.)
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