How to put maven project version in war file manifest?
Solution 1
Figured it out using the maven-war-plugin. See the configuration below:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.1</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifestEntries>
<version>${project.version}</version>
</manifestEntries>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Solution 2
Or you can use the addDefaultImplementationEntries or addDefaultSpecificationEntries flags which will add several entries including the project.version
property.
addDefaultImplementationEntries
Implementation-Title: ${project.name}
Implementation-Version: ${project.version}
Implementation-Vendor-Id: ${project.groupId}
Implementation-Vendor: ${project.organization.name}
Implementation-URL: ${project.url}
addDefaultSpecificationEntries
Specification-Title: ${project.name}
Specification-Version: ${project.version}
Specification-Vendor: ${project.organization.name}
Default value for both is false. If a property is not defined (e.g. project.organization.name
), then that line will be excluded from the manifest.
This could go into the maven-war-plugin configuration as follows:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addDefaultImplementationEntries>true</addDefaultImplementationEntries>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Matthew Kubicina
I'm a technology leader based in New York, NY. Currently, I am heading up engineering at BaubleBar, an eCommerce start-up in Manhattan.
Updated on January 08, 2020Comments
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Matthew Kubicina over 4 years
I need to have Maven insert the version number from the POM file into the manifest located in the WAR file under /WEB-INF/manifest.mf.
How do I do this? I was able to easily file documentation for doing this in a JAR file using the maven-jar-plugin, but that does not work on a WAR file.
Thanks for the help!