The manifest-update-maven-plugin:package Goal

This goal will process any defined artifacts, updating the manifest contained in the artifact as defined.

Configuring Your Plugin

In the pom.xml file, configure the plugin:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>com.github.dkartaschew</groupId>
      <artifactId>manifest-update-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.0</version>
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <phase>package</phase>
          <goals>
            <goal>package</goal>
          </goals>
        </execution>
      </executions>
      <configuration>
        <artifacts>
          <artifact>
            <publishArtifact>false</publishArtifact>
            <artifact>org.apache.maven:maven-plugin-api:3.5.0</artifact>
            <manifestFile>maven-plugin-api.mf</manifestFile>
            <mode>merge</mode>
          </artifact>
        </artifacts>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
    ...
  </plugins>
</build>

The above example will tie the execution to package:package allowing you to simply run:

 mvn package                   

The configuration takes are collection of artifact in artifacts.

The available parameters for each artifact are:

1. jarFile - A local JAR file to update. The location of this file is relative to the pom file.
2. artifact - A local JAR file located in the local maven repository. The format definition uses Apache Buildr notation. (This is effectively groupId:artifactId:version).
3. manifestFile - defines the supplemental manifest file that will update the manifest in the JAR file. The provided manifest file must conform to the JAR Manifest specification. The location of this file is relative to the pom file.
4. mode - The mode to update the manifest in the JAR file, This will either be merge to merge the contents, or overwrite to replace the contents.
5. publishArtifact - can be set to true or false. This setting instructs the plugin to republish an updated JAR back into the local maven repository post processing. This setting has no effect if the JAR file being updated did not originate from the local maven repository. (Defaults to false).

The default is to not publish artifacts back into the local maven repository if the source is obtained from this source.