[jcifs] Manifest missing OSGi configuration

[Michael B Allen]

The 1.3.16 release now includes a manifest that contains the fields
described in your message.

Mike

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Michael B Allen
Java Active Directory Integration
http://www.ioplex.com/

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Brevard,
>
> I have added this issue to the TODO list. It should not be difficult
> to add an Ant task to generate a proper manifest.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael B Allen
> Java Active Directory Integration
> http://www.ioplex.com/
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Brevard Swart <bswart at magnet.ie> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> We are not sure you’re aware of this but the latest version of Java mail
>> library (1.4.3) supports NTLM authentication through your jcifs 1.3.12+
>> library.
>>
>> You will run into problems while running mail enabled web applications on
>> OSGi web containers (e.g. Glassfish v3) even having jcifs package on the
>> application classpath.
>>
>> The reason is because of your Maven generated META-INF/MANIFEST.MF doesn’t
>> have any useful OSGi information in it.
>>
>>
>>
>> The fix we used was as follows:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1.         A. You need to modify and replace the manifest
>> (META-INF\Manifest.mf) of jcifs-1.3.14.jar with:
>>
>>
>>
>> Manifest-Version: 1.0
>>
>> Bundle-Version: 1.3.14
>>
>> Bundle-Name: jcifs
>>
>> Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
>>
>> Bundle-SymbolicName: jcifs
>>
>> Export-Package: jcifs, jcifs.dcerpc, jcifs.dcerpc.msrpc, jcifs.dcerpc.ndr,
>> jcifs.http, jcifs.https, jcifs.netbios, jcifs.ntlmssp, jcifs.smb,
>> jcifs.util, jcifs.util.transport
>>
>>
>>
>> B. Another option to consider would be to use a maven-osgi-plugin or
>> maven-bundle-plugin to make MANIFEST.MF OSGi-compliant.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2.         And you need to copy the jcifs-1.3.14.jar to
>> {Glassfish_Home}\glassfishv3\glassfish\modules (it is also missing from
>> modules because it is considered optional…).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Brevard Swart
>>
>> & Pawel Pietrzak
>