Hi Tom,
What is it you are trying to do ? OSGI/Felix expects a jar file with a certain format. Your question is not quite clear. How can we help? On 11/20/15, 2:35 PM, "Tom Bentley" <t.j.bent...@gmail.com> wrote: >Yes, but my point is that it's not specified here >http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html which is >the specification of the _file format_. The fact that the jar tool happens >to put the manifest first is immaterial since the file format specification >just says that a jar is a zip file. Thus I should be able to create that >file however I chose, not necessarily with the jar tool. > >On 20 November 2015 at 13:28, Jan Willem Janssen < >janwillem.jans...@luminis.eu> wrote: > >> >> > On 20 Nov 2015, at 14:24, Tom Bentley <t.j.bent...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I'm experimenting with felix and I've noticed that it doesn't handle >> > bundles which have a MANIFEST.MF which is not the first entry in the jar. >> > As far as I'm aware it's not part of the jar specification that the >> > manifest needs to come first, but having had a quick search of the >> archives >> > it seems this isn't the first time it's come up, so I thought I'd ask >> for a >> > reference before opening an issue. >> >> The manifest should always be the first entry for a JAR file to be valid, >> which is specified, though not really clearly, see [1] for example. >> >> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/windows/jar.html >> >> -- >> Met vriendelijke groeten | Kind regards >> >> Jan Willem Janssen | Software Architect >> +31 631 765 814 >> >> My world is revolving around INAETICS and Amdatu >> >> Luminis Technologies B.V. >> Churchillplein 1 >> 7314 BZ Apeldoorn >> +31 88 586 46 00 >> >> http://www.luminis-technologies.com >> http://www.luminis.eu >> >> KvK (CoC) 09 16 28 93 >> BTW (VAT) NL8169.78.566.B.01 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org
