Originally posted by Henry Wong:
I see that I am not the only person who uses "jar" to create war files. My colleagues like to use "zip", because "jar" creates an extra manifest file and directory, that is not needed. Personally, it doesn't bother me.
Henry
Point your colleagues to the -M option.
-M do not create a manifest file for the entries
Better still, use Apache
Ant.
If I could have a dollar for each time I've seen a EAR/WAR/JAR refuse to function because it was archived using some arbitrary tool...