Jar doesn't populate Class-Path from manifest to target .jar

Question

I have a manifest file with the following content:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Name: webserver.jar
Main-Class: Acme.Serve.Serve
Java-Bean: False
Class-Path: webserver.jar servlet.jarHowever result META-INF/MANIFEST.MF populated by jar in webserver.jar doesn't have Class-Path entry. What's the trick without manual editing MANIFEST.MF in .jar?

Answer 1

The following extension of the class Bar.java will at least get the information from the jar file.
package bar;
import foo.Foo;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.jar.Attributes;
import java.util.jar.JarFile;
import java.util.jar.Manifest;
public class Bar {
  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    try {
      String classpath = Foo.getPath();
      System.out.println("java.class.path=" + classpath);
      if (!new File(classpath).isDirectory()) {
     JarFile f = new JarFile(classpath);
     Manifest mf = f.getManifest();
     Attributes a = mf.getMainAttributes();
     Iterator keys = a.keySet().iterator();
     while (keys.hasNext()) {
       Attributes.Name key = (Attributes.Name)keys.next();
       String value = a.getValue(key);
       System.out.println(key + "=" + value);
    catch (IOException ioe) {
      System.err.println("Error: " + ioe.getMessage());
}