On Thursday 21 February 2008 wrote Graham Leggett:
> Martin Höller wrote:
> > No, it's not, it's a WTP 2.0 project. My plugin configuration is as
> > follows:
> >
> >         <plugin>
> >           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
> >           <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
> >           <version>2.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
> >           <configuration>
> >             <downloadSources>false</downloadSources>
> >             <downloadJavadocs>false</downloadJavadocs>
> >             <wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
> >             <wtpmanifest>true</wtpmanifest>
>
>                             ^^^^
>
> >           </configuration>
> >         </plugin>
>
> What purpose does this serve?

I need a MANIFEST.MF for the classpath (it's a skinny war as it is part of 
an EAR)

> > Well, this file is not created by eclipse but by the m-eclipse-p. And I
> > would say this plugin shouldn't write to src/main/...
>
> The way Eclipse deals with manifest files is they are considered part of
> the source code, not a generated artifact.

Yeah, that's why I want maven to generate it for eclipse as maven has all 
the information that belongs into the MANIFEST.MF

> As a result, if you want to synchronise Eclipse with anything in maven,
> you have to edit the existing files where Eclipse put them.

Eclipse didn't and wouldn't put MANIFEST.MF anywhere if it didn't exist, so 
either I create it by hand (what is not what I want) or let maven create it 
for me, which the m-eclipse-p obviously is designed for. It's just the 
location of the file that isn't configurable and has IMHO a bad default.

thanks for you answer anyway,
- martin
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