MySQL Bugs: #15641: Wrong manifest in jar file

Bug #15641	Wrong manifest in jar file
Submitted:	9 Dec 2005 16:48	Modified:	9 Feb 2007 0:04
Reporter:	Pascal Grange	Email Updates:
Status:	Patch pending
Category:	Connector/J	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	3.0.17, 5.0.4	OS:	Any (any)
Assigned to:	Mark Matthews	Target Version:
Triage:	D5 (Feature request)

Description:
The manifest in mysql-connector-java-3.0.17-ga-bin.jar does not indicate any information.
This is really anoying when one wants to take advantage of the dependency management
mechanisme offered by the extensions of manifest.mf. For instance with tomcat, a jar file
explicitly depending on mysq-connector-java will result in a failure to load the
corresponding context.

How to repeat:
Just look the output of the following command :

unzip -c mysql-connector-java-3.0.17-ga-bin.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

Suggested fix:
Suggestion of a correct META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file :

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.6.2
Created-By: 1.4.2-b28 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Extension-Name: mysql-connector-java
Specification-Version: 3.0.17
Implementation-Version: 3.0.17
Implementation-Vendor-Id: com.mysql

I was able to find manifest.mf :
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.6.2
Created-By: 1.4.2-b28 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Built-By: jdbcbuild

Name: common
Specification-Title: JDBC
Specification-Version: 3.0
Specification-Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Implementation-Title: MySQL Connector/J
Implementation-Version: 3.1.11
Implementation-Vendor: MySQL AB

What is wrong there ?

That's right, I found more relevant information in the manifest file of the current 3.1.12
version of ConnectorJ.

HOWEVER the Implementation-Vendor-Id is still missing from the manifest. Adding something
like :

Implementation-Vendor-Id: com.mysql

in the manifest would be great as it would solve extension issues when using with tomcat.

Thank you for the reasonable feature request.

A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/19594