I have the following problem. I have a Java project in my NetBeans IDE 6.8. When I compile it and it produces a .jar file containing everything possible, the META-INF is not
It looks like you are running into a bug in the way NetBeans 6.8 creates the jar for a Java Library Project.
The issue implies that there is a work-around.
I have not been able to verify that with NB 6.8 and/or NetBeans 6.9-dev...
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