Poor implementation of manifest fiels

Question

im looking to get jdeveloper to automatically add a date line into the manifest file.
currently i am privilaged to get hte following in my manifest files
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: Oracle JDeveloper 10g 9.0.5
why can several options not be added to jdeveloper to auto compile the java information into this file.
surely it would not be that difficult to add some meta commands to fill in such items as:
1. compile date & time
2. classes /files included
3. revision numbers.
4. option to remove silly message currently included.
has anyone come across a plugin to provie this function?
steve

Answer 1

Hi Steve, you need to go through the docu (http://ant.apache.org/).
e.g. to create a jar with manifest (http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/manifest.html) this could look like
  <target name="Module-Resources-JAR"
          description="Creates the [Module]FolderResources.jar" >
    <jar jarfile="${DIR.JARS}/${Module.Name.Resources.jar}"
         duplicate="fail"
         compress="false"
         index="false" >
      <fileset dir="${DIR.COMPILE}" >
        <patternset refid="include.resources.bundles"/>
        <patternset refid="include.resources.images"/>
      </fileset>
      <manifest>
        <attribute name="Created-Date" value="${build.time.stamp}" />
        <attribute name="Specification-Title" value="${NAME} - ${Module.Name.Disp} Module - I18N Resources for ${language.extension}" />
        <attribute name="Specification-Version" value="${SPEC.VERSION}" />
        <attribute name="Specification-Vendor" value="${AUTHOR.NAME}" />
        <attribute name="Implementation-Title" value="${NAME} - ${Module.Name.Disp} Module - I18N Resources for ${language.extension}" />
        <attribute name="Implementation-Version" value="${BUILD.VERSION}" />
        <attribute name="Implementation-Vendor" value="${AUTHOR.NAME}" />
        <attribute name="Implementation-URL" value="${HOMEPAGE}" />
        <attribute name="Implementation-Language" value="${BUILD.LANGUAGE}" />
        <attribute name="Copyright" value="${COPYRIGHT.TEXT}" />
      </manifest>
    </jar>
    </target>