What’s the purpose of META-INF?

Generally speaking, you should not put anything into META-INF yourself. Instead, you should rely upon whatever you use to package up your JAR. This is one of the areas where I think Ant really excels: specifying JAR file manifest attributes. It’s very easy to say something like:

<jar ...>
    <manifest>
        <attribute name="Main-Class" value="MyApplication"/>
    </manifest>
</jar>

At least, I think that’s easy… 🙂

The point is that META-INF should be considered an internal Java meta directory. Don’t mess with it! Any files you want to include with your JAR should be placed in some other sub-directory or at the root of the JAR itself.

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