How to put maven project version in war file manifest?

Question

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 ea

Answer 1

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:

    maven-war-plugin
    2.2
    
        
            
                true