I would like to change the manifest entry, "Built-By" to a custom string. I tried:
<plugin>
<inherited>true</inherited>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.1</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addDefaultImplementationEntries>true</addDefaultImplementationEntries>
<addDefaultSpecificationEntries>true</addDefaultSpecificationEntries>
<!-- <builtBy>TESTING</builtBy>-->
<!-- <addBuildEnvironmentEntries>false</addBuildEnvironmentEntries>-->
</manifest>
<manifestEntries>
<Implementation-Version>${project.version}</Implementation-Version>
<Implementation-Build>${project.version}.${git.commit.id.abbrev}</Implementation-Build>
<!-- <Built-By>TESTING</Built-By>-->
<BuiltBy>TESTING</BuiltBy>
</manifestEntries>
</archive>
<resources>
<entityReference>
<directory>src/main/java</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*properties</include>
</includes>
</entityReference>
</resources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
However, none of those "Built-By" properties appear to have any effect. Is it possible to change?
The answer was very simple, I had a typo:
<plugin>
<inherited>true</inherited>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.1</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addDefaultImplementationEntries>true</addDefaultImplementationEntries>
<addDefaultSpecificationEntries>true</addDefaultSpecificationEntries>
<!-- <builtBy>TESTING</builtBy>-->
<!-- <addBuildEnvironmentEntries>false</addBuildEnvironmentEntries>-->
</manifest>
<manifestEntries>
<Implementation-Version>${project.version}</Implementation-Version>
<Implementation-Build>${project.version}.${git.commit.id.abbrev}</Implementation-Build>
<Built-By>TESTING</Built-By>
</manifestEntries>
</archive>
<resources>
<entityReference>
<directory>src/main/java</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*properties</include>
</includes>
</entityReference>
</resources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Looking at what I had above, I apparently had tried Built-By as it was commented out. However, the above code now works. I'm not sure when it started working on how the above example did not work.