Simpliest way to add an attribute to a jar Manifest in Maven

Question

Since the last Java update, I need to tag my applet jars manifest with the Trusted-Library attribute to avoid warning popup when javascript is communicating wit

Answer 1

I consider usage of webstart-maven-plugin the right choice here. I mean there are bugs, there are things that you might need to patch yourself, but if you're OK with that, the one plugin can do quite much for you without some ant workarounds.

For the particular problem there is a bug report with a working patch included. See: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWEBSTART-213

UPDATE:

fix is included in the release: 1.0-beta-4.

going for configuration:

  all-permissions
  *
  ....

should do the job