How to put maven project version in war file manifest?

Question

I need to have Maven insert the version number from the POM file into the manifest located in the WAR file under /WEB-INF/manifest.mf.

How do I do this? I was able to ea

Answer 1

Figured it out using the maven-war-plugin. See the configuration below:

     org.apache.maven.plugins
     maven-war-plugin
     2.1.1
     
         
             
                 ${project.version}