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

Put ${project.version} in your manifest.mf where you want the version to be. In order for this to work, I believe you need the resources plugin so that manven will 'filter' resources as they are included in your war file.