Creating a JAR Manifest

  1. Select the JAR recipe node for the JAR file in the Explorer.
  2. If the Properties window is not open, right-click the JAR recipe node and choose.
  3. On the property sheet, select the Manifest property and click the ellipsis (...) button.
  4. In the Manifest property editor, you can:

If you click Load Manifest From File, any text in the text area is replaced by the generated or loaded text. If you click Generate, any matching basic attributes are replaced and any syntactically incorrect entries are removed.

Tip For information on manifest syntax, visit http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/jar/manifest.html.
See also
Creating a JAR File
The JAR Contents Property Editor
Modifying a JAR File
Updating a JAR File
Running a JAR File
Setting a JAR Content Filter

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