How do I read the manifest file for a webapp running in apache tomcat?
Maybe your side-effects come from the fact that almost all jars include a MANIFEST.MF and you’re not getting the right one. To read the MANIFEST.MF from the webapp, I would say: ServletContext application = getServletConfig().getServletContext(); InputStream inputStream = application.getResourceAsStream(“/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF”); Manifest manifest = new Manifest(inputStream); Please note that running Tomcat from Eclipse is not the same … Read more