-- Kenney Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Oscar Picasso wrote: ... > > Furthermore in any case the resulting jar contains the following: > > META-INF/ > > META-INF/MANIFEST.MF > > ... > > META-INF/maven/ > > META-INF/maven/org.trial/ > > META-INF/maven/org.trial/test/ > > META-INF/maven/org.trial/test/pom.xml > > META-INF/maven/org.trial/test/pom.properties > > > > What is the purpose of these pom.xml and pom.properties in the resulting > jar? > > They contain information about my working directory which is of no use for > a > > released jar and I even don't see where they come from. They seem to be > > magically generated by maven. > > Correct. They are used to track where a pom came from. The pom.xml is the > original pom, so you could extract it if you just found a single jar > somewhere, and see what it is. The pom.properties contains information > like the time the project was built.
Just curious. I have looked at some jar in the maven2 ibiblio repository and did n't find these pom.xml and pom.properties. Does it mean that the jars where filtered or that the jars where generated with maven2 ? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
