How do you create a MANIFEST.MF that's available when you're testing and running from a jar in production?

Question

I\'ve spent far too much time trying to figure this out. This should be the simplest thing and everyone who distributes Java applications in jars must have to deal with it.

Answer 1

You want to use this:

Enumeration resources = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResources("META-INF/MANIFEST.MF");

You can parse the URL to figure out WHICH jar the manifest if from and then read the URL via getInputStream() to parse the manifest.